Routh reduction and the class of magnetic Lagrangian systems
Mathematical Physics
2012-06-11 v2 Dynamical Systems
math.MP
Abstract
In this paper, some new aspects related to Routh reduction of Lagrangian systems with symmetry are discussed. The main result of this paper is the introduction of a new concept of transformation that is applicable to systems obtained after Routh reduction of Lagrangian systems with symmetry, so-called magnetic Lagrangian systems. We use these transformations in order to show that, under suitable conditions, the reduction with respect to a (full) semi-direct product group is equivalent to the reduction with respect to an Abelian normal subgroup. The results in this paper are closely related to the more general theory of Routh reduction by stages.
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@article{arxiv.1203.3302,
title = {Routh reduction and the class of magnetic Lagrangian systems},
author = {B. Langerock and E. García-Toraño Andrés and F. Cantrijn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3302},
year = {2012}
}
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23 pages