Extended Hamilton-Jacobi theory, contact manifolds and integrability by quadratures
Differential Geometry
2020-02-19 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
A Hamilton-Jacobi theory for general dynamical systems, defined on fibered phase spaces, has been recently developed. In this paper we shall apply such a theory to contact Hamiltonian systems, as those appearing in thermodynamics and on geodesic flows in fluid mechanics. We first study the partial and complete solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation (HJE) related to these systems. Then we show that, for a given contact system, the knowledge of what we have called a complete pseudo-isotropic solution ensures the integrability by quadratures of its equations of motion. This extends to contact manifolds a recent result obtained in the context of general symplectic and Poisson manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.1909.11393,
title = {Extended Hamilton-Jacobi theory, contact manifolds and integrability by quadratures},
author = {S. Grillo and E. Padrón},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11393},
year = {2020}
}