Cosymplectic and contact structures for time-dependent and dissipative Hamiltonian systems

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DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA711DzbMATH Open1425.70031arXiv1612.06224OpenAlexW3099676192MaRDI QIDQ5347996FDOQ5347996

Manuel de León, C. Sardón

Publication date: 11 August 2017

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

Abstract: In this paper, we apply the geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory to obtain solutions of classical hamiltonian systems that are either compatible with a cosymplectic or a contact structure. As it is well known, the first structure plays a central role in the theory of time-dependent hamiltonians, whilst the second is here used to treat classical hamiltonians including dissipation terms. The interest of a geometric Hamilton--Jacobi equation is the primordial observation that if a hamiltonian vector field XH can be projected into a configuration manifold by means of a 1-form dW, then the integral curves of the projected vector field XHdW can be transformed into integral curves of XH provided that W is a solution of the Hamilton--Jacobi equation. In this way, we use the geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory to derive solutions of physical systems with a time-dependent hamiltonian formulation or including dissipative terms. Explicit, new expressions for a geometric Hamilton--Jacobi equation are obtained on a cosymplectic and a contact manifold. These equations are later used to solve physical examples containing explicit time dependence, as it is the case of a unidimensional trigonometric system, and two dimensional nonlinear oscillators as Winternitz--Smorodinsky oscillators. For explicit dissipative behavior, we solve the example of a unidimensional damped oscillator.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.06224




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