Jacobi equations using a variational principle

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00574-0zbMATH Open1115.70305arXivmath-ph/0005005OpenAlexW2150439333MaRDI QIDQ998058FDOQ998058

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

Publication date: 10 August 2007

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

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.

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

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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)

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