English

Classical relativistic nonholonomic mechanics and time-dependent $G$-Chaplygin systems with affine constraints

Mathematical Physics 2024-07-10 v1 Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We study the relativistic formulation of a classical time-dependent nonholonomic Lagrangian mechanics from the perspective of moving frames. We also introduce time-dependent GG-Chaplygin systems with affine constraints, which are natural objects for the invariant formulation of nonholonomic systems with symmetries. As far as the author is aware, the Hamiltonization problem for time-dependent constraints has not yet been studied. As a first step in this direction, we consider a rolling without sliding of a balanced disc of radius rr over a vertical circle of variable radius R(t)R(t). We modify the Chaplygin multiplier method and prove that the reduced system becomes the usual Lagrangian system with respect to the new time.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2407.06231,
  title  = {Classical relativistic nonholonomic mechanics and time-dependent $G$-Chaplygin systems with affine constraints},
  author = {Bozidar Jovanovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06231},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

24 pages, 4 figures, continuation of arXiv:2403.01114