Skew critical problems

DOI10.1134/S1560354707060020MaRDI QIDQ655289zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles Cuell, G. W. Patrick

Publication date 3 January 2012

Published in Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3756

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlesnonholonomic mechanicscontact orderLagrange-D'Alembert principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30)

Abstract: Skew critical problems occur in continuous and discrete nonholonomic Lagrangian systems. They are analogues of constrained optimization problems, where the objective is differentiated in directions given by an apriori distribution, instead of tangent directions to the constraint. We show semiglobal existence and uniqueness for nondegenerate skew critical problems, and show that the solutions of two skew critical problems have the same contact as the problems themselves. Also, we develop some infrastructure that is necessary to compute with contact order geometrically, directly on manifolds.

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