Contact geometric mechanics: the Tulczyjew triples

Authors Katarzyna Grabowska, J. Grabowski

Publication date 7 September 2022

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70Hxx) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39)

Abstract: We propose a generalization of the classical Tulczyjew triple as a geometric tool in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms which serves for contact manifolds. The role of the canonical symplectic structures on cotangent bundles in the Tulczyjew's case is played by the canonical contact structures on the bundles J^1L of first jets of sections of a line bundle L. Contact Hamiltonians and contact Lagrangians are understood as sections of certain line bundles and determine (generally implicit) dynamics on the contact phase space. We study also a contact analog of the Legendre map and the Legendre transformation of generating objects in both contact formalisms. Several explicit examples are offered.

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