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The nonholonomic bracket on contact mechanical systems

Differential Geometry 2024-03-19 v2

Abstract

In this paper we study contact nonholonomic mechanical sys\-tems. We construct a general framework for non-holonomic constraints in contact geometry and, in this framework, we define different nonholonomic brackets using con\-venient \linebreak decompositions of the tangent bundle of the phase space. \linebreak Furthermore, we prove that all of them coincide. In particular, one the brackets is a natural extension of that defined by R.J. Eden, but now it is an almost Jacobi bracket since it is not satisfy the Leibniz rule.

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@article{arxiv.2312.15044,
  title  = {The nonholonomic bracket on contact mechanical systems},
  author = {Manuel De León and Víctor M. Jiménez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.15044},
  year   = {2024}
}
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