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Contact geometric mechanics: the Tulczyjew triples

Symplectic Geometry 2024-11-04 v3 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

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 J1LJ^1L of first jets of sections of line bundles LML\to M. Contact Hamiltonians and contact Lagrangians are understood as sections of certain line bundles, and they determine (generally implicit) dynamics on the contact phase space J1LJ^1L. 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