On the Lagrangian description of dissipative systems

DOI10.1063/1.5004796zbMATH Open1390.70043arXiv1708.03419OpenAlexW3105398031WikidataQ130109723 ScholiaQ130109723MaRDI QIDQ4635292FDOQ4635292

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Publication date: 16 April 2018

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the Lagrangian formulation with duplicated variables of dissipative mechanical systems. The application of Noether theorem leads to physical observable quantities which are not conserved, like energy and angular momentum, and conserved quantities like the Hamiltonian, that generate symmetry transformations and do not correspond to observables. We show that there are simple relations among the equations satisfied by these two types of quantities. In the case of the damped harmonic oscillator, from the quantities obtained by Noether theorem follows the algebra of Feshbach and Tikochinsky. Further, if we consider the whole dynamics, the degrees of freedom separate into a physical and an unphysical sector. We analyze several cases, with linear and nonlinear dissipative forces; the physical consistency of the solutions is ensured observing that the unphysical sector has always the trivial solution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03419

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrange's equations (70H03) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Symmetries of infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems (37L20)

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