Contact geometric mechanics: the Tulczyjew triples
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 r\^ole of the canonical symplectic structures on cotangent bundles in Tulczyjew's case is played by the canonical contact structures on the bundles of first jets of sections of line bundles . Contact Hamiltonians and contact Lagrangians are understood as sections of certain line bundles, and they determine (generally implicit) dynamics on the contact phase space . We also study 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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@article{arxiv.2209.03154,
title = {Contact geometric mechanics: the Tulczyjew triples},
author = {Katarzyna Grabowska and Janusz Grabowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.03154},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
35 pages, minor changes, a few references added, to appear in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics