Jacobi equations using a variational principle

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00574-0MaRDI QIDQ998058zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. N. Núñez-Yépez, A. L. Salas-Brito

Publication date 10 August 2007

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0005005

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30) Stability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K20)

Abstract: A variational principle is proposed for obtaining the Jacobi equations in systems admitting a Lagrangian description. The variational principle gives simultaneously the Lagrange equations of motion and the Jacobi variational equations for the system. The approach can be of help in finding constants of motion in the Jacobi equations as well as in analysing the stability of the systems and can be related to the vertical extension of the Lagrangian formalism. To exemplify two of such aspects, we uncover a constant of motion in the Jacobi equations of autonomous systems and we recover the well-known sufficient conditions of stability of two dimensional orbits in classical mechanics.

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