Contact Hamiltonian Systems
Symplectic Geometry
2019-11-14 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
In this paper we study Hamiltonian systems on contact manifolds, which is an appropriate scenario to discuss dissipative systems. We prove a coisotropic reduction theorem similar to the one in symplectic mechanics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1811.03367,
title = {Contact Hamiltonian Systems},
author = {Manuel Lainz Valcázar and Manuel de León},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03367},
year = {2019}
}