Alternative Lagrangians obtained by scalar deformations

DOI10.1142/S0219887820500504MaRDI QIDQ6198515zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 23 February 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01392

zbMATH Keywords

alternative LagrangiansFrölicher-Nijenhuis formalismLagrangian systemssemi-sprays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

Abstract: We study non-conservative like SODEs admitting explicit Lagrangian descriptions. Such systems are equivalent to the system of Lagrange equations of some Lagrangian $L$, including a covariant force field which represents non-conservative forces. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a differentiable function $Phi:mathbbRightarrowmathbbR$ such that the initial system is equivalent to the system of Euler-Lagrange equations of the deformed Lagrangian $Phi(L)$. We give various examples of such deformations.

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