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Dynamics on a submanifold: intermediate formalism versus Hamiltonian reduction of Dirac bracket, and integrability

Mathematical Physics 2024-03-27 v5 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We consider Hamiltonian formulation of a dynamical system forced to move on a submanifold Gα(qA)=0G_\alpha(q^A)=0. If for some reasons we are interested in knowing the dynamics of all original variables qA(t)q^A(t), the most economical would be a Hamiltonian formulation on the intermediate phase-space submanifold spanned by reducible variables qAq^A and an irreducible set of momenta pip_i, [i]=[A][α][i]=[A]-[\alpha]. We describe and compare two different possibilities for establishing the Poisson structure and Hamiltonian dynamics on an intermediate submanifold: Hamiltonian reduction of the Dirac bracket and intermediate formalism. As an example of the application of intermediate formalism, we deduce on this basis the Euler-Poisson equations of a spinning body, establish the underlying Poisson structure, and write their general solution in terms of the exponential of the Hamiltonian vector field.

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@article{arxiv.2309.05151,
  title  = {Dynamics on a submanifold: intermediate formalism versus Hamiltonian reduction of Dirac bracket, and integrability},
  author = {Alexei A. Deriglazov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05151},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, typos corrected, notation improved, discussion expanded, matches with published version