Geometric constrained variational calculus. I: Piecewise smooth extremals.

DOI10.1142/S0219887815500619zbMATH Open1319.49031arXiv1503.08808OpenAlexW2086766110MaRDI QIDQ5261035FDOQ5261035

Gianvittorio Luria, Enrico Pagani, Danilo Bruno, Enrico Massa

Publication date: 1 July 2015

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A geometric setup for constrained variational calculus is presented. The analysis deals with the study of the extremals of an action functional defined on piecewise differentiable curves, subject to differentiable, non-holonomic constraints. Special attention is paid to the tensorial aspects of the theory. As far as the kinematical foundations are concerned, a fully covariant scheme is developed through the introduction of the concept of infinitesimal control. The standard classification of the extremals into normal and abnormal ones is discussed, pointing out the existence of an algebraic algorithm assigning to each admissible curve a corresponding abnormality index, related to the co-rank of a suitable linear map. Attention is then shifted to the study of the first variation of the action functional. The analysis includes a revisitation of Pontryagin's equations and of the Lagrange multipliers method, as well as a reformulation of Pontryagin's algorithm in hamiltonian terms. The analysis is completed by a general result, concerning the existence of finite deformations with fixed endpoints.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08808

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zbMATH Keywords

Lagrange multipliersPontryagin maximum principlegeometric constrained calculus of variationsextremaloids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25) Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49J99) Geometric methods (93B27)

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