Scaling symmetries, contact reduction and Poincaré’s dream

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/acfdddzbMath1529.37036arXiv2206.09911OpenAlexW4387080369MaRDI QIDQ6053786

David M. Sloan, Connor Jackman, Alessandro Bravetti

Publication date: 23 October 2023

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09911

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systemscontact geometryHerglotz variational principleMcGehee blow-upscaling symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Contact systems (37J55) Action-minimizing orbits and measures for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems; variational principles; degree-theoretic methods (37J51)

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