A Maupertuis-type principle in relativistic mechanics and applications

DOI10.1007/S00526-023-02430-9MaRDI QIDQ6402358arXivFDO

Authors Alberto Boscaggin, Walter Dambrosio, Eduardo Muñoz-Hernández

Publication date 17 June 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00526-023-02430-9

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37J46) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.CAmath.MP

Abstract: We provide a Maupertuis-type principle for the following system of ODE, of interest in special relativity: ${\displaystyle }$ frac{ m d}{{ m d}t}left(frac{mdot{x}}{sqrt{1-|dot{x}|^2/c^2}} ight)= abla V(x),qquad xinOmega subset mathbb{R}^n, ${\displaystyle }$ where $m,c>0$ and $V:OmegaomathbbR$ is a function of class $C^1$. As an application, we prove the existence of multiple periodic solutions with prescribed energy for a relativistic $N$-centre type problem in the plane.

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