Contact bundle formulation of nonholonomic Maupertuis-Jacobi principle and a length minimizing property of nonholonomic dynamics
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Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60)
Abstract: We prove a nonholonomic version of the classical Mauper-tuis-Jacobi principle which transforms an autonomous mechanical nonholonomic problem, determined by a kinetic minus potential energy and a distribution, in a kinetic nonholonomic problem over a fixed level set of the Lagrangian energy. To prove this result we introduce an appropriate contact bundle structure clarifying the geometric equivalence between both problems. By using the nonholonomic Maupertuis-Jacobi principle, we prove that the regular solutions of a mechanical nonholonomic problem starting from a fixed point and in the same level set of the Lagrangian energy are reparametrizations of geodesics for a family of Riemannian metrics defined on the image of the nonholonomic exponential map. In particular, these trajectories minimize Riemannian length.
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