Regularity of generating families of functions

DOI10.3934/JGM.2010.2.199MaRDI QIDQ613109zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew, Paweł Urbański

Publication date 17 December 2010

Published in Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4183

Hessian Lagrangian submanifold Liouville structure symplectic reduction

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99)

Abstract: We describe the geometric structures involved in the variational formulation of physical theories. In presence of these structures, the constitutive set of a physical system can be generated by a family of functions. We discuss conditions, under which a family of functions generates an immersed Lagrangian submanifold. These conditions are given in terms of the Hessian of the family.

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New types of geometric structures, called Liouville, are introduced by the same authors in [Zesz. Nauk Uniw. Jagiell., Univ. Iagell. Ada Math. 47, 187--226 (2009)] towards a variational formulation of physical theories. The present paper goes further with the study of these structures by obtaining the constitutive set of a physical system from a generating object. For example, sufficient conditions are discussed for a family of functions to generate Lagrangian submanifolds in terms of the Hessian of this family at its critical points. Also, the notion of regular family is introduced, less restrictive than the concept of Morse family; an important result is that the set generated by a regular family is an immersed Lagrangian submanifold.

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