Contact Dynamics versus Legendrian and Lagrangian Submanifolds
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arXiv2108.06519MaRDI QIDQ6375233FDOQ6375233
Authors: Oğul Esen, Manuel Laínz Valcázar, Manuel de León, Juan Carlos Marrero 
Publication date: 14 August 2021
Abstract: We are proposing Tulczyjew's triple for contact dynamics. The most important ingredients of the triple, namely symplectic diffeomorphisms, special symplectic manifolds, and Morse families, are generalized to the contact framework. These geometries permit us to determine so-called generating family (obtained by merging a special contact manifold and a Morse family) for a Legendrian submanifold. Contact Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Dynamics are recast as Legendrian submanifolds of the tangent contact manifold. In this picture, the Legendre transformation is determined to be a passage between two different generators of the same Legendrian submanifold. A variant of contact Tulczyjew's triple is constructed for evolution contact dynamics.
Canonical transformations in symplectic and contact geometry (53D22) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)
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