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We propose a new framework for constructing geometric and physical models on nonholonomic manifolds provided both with Clifford -- Lie algebroid symmetry and nonlinear connection structure. Explicit parametrizations of generic off-diagonal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

This paper develops the notion of implicit Lagrangian systems on Lie algebroids and a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for this type of system. The Lie algebroid framework provides a natural generalization of classical tangent bundle geometry. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 Melvin Leok , Diana Sosa

Systems of ordinary differential equations (or dynamical forms in Lagrangian mechanics), induced by embeddings of smooth fibered manifolds over one-dimensional basis, are considered in the class of variational equations. For a given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-07 Demeter Krupka , Zbyněk Urban , Jana Volná

We construct an algebra of pseudodifferential operators on each groupoid in a class that generalizes differentiable groupoids to allow manifolds with corners. We show that this construction encompasses many examples. The subalgebra of…

funct-an · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Victor Nistor , Alan Weinstein , Ping Xu

The article introduces a method to learn dynamical systems that are governed by Euler--Lagrange equations from data. The method is based on Gaussian process regression and identifies continuous or discrete Lagrangians and is, therefore,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Christian Offen

This paper presents a method to construct variational integrators for time-dependent lagrangian systems. The resulting algorithms are symplectic, preserve the momentum map associated with a Lie group of symmetries and also describe the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 M. de Leon , D. Martin de Diego

The study of mechanical systems on Lie algebroids permits an understanding of the dynamics described by a Lagrangian or Hamiltonian function for a wide range of mechanical systems in a unified framework. Systems defined in tangent bundles,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Ligia Abrunheiro , Leonardo Colombo

Rigid body dynamics on the rotation group have typically been represented in terms of rotation matrices, unit quaternions, or local coordinates, such as Euler angles. Due to the coordinate singularities associated with local coordinate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Xuefeng Shen , Melvin Leok

We describe a variational framework for non-commuting flows, extending the theories of Lagrangian multiforms and pluri-Lagrangian systems, which have gained prominence in recent years as a variational description of integrable systems in…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-04-25 Vincent Caudrelier , Frank Nijhoff , Duncan Sleigh , Mats Vermeeren

For a discrete mechanical system on a Lie group $G$ determined by a (reduced) Lagrangian $\ell$ we define a Poisson structure via the pull-back of the Lie-Poisson structure on the dual of the Lie algebra ${\mathfrak g}^*$ by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jerrold E. Marsden , Sergey Pekarsky , Steve Shkoller

We introduce the general polynomial algebras characterizing a class of higher order superintegrable systems that separate in Cartesian coordinates. The construction relies on underlying polynomial Heisenberg algebras and their defining…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Danilo Latini , Ian Marquette , Yao-Zhong Zhang

In this paper we construct higher-order variational integrators for a class of degenerate systems described by Lagrangians that are linear in velocities. We analyze the geometry underlying such systems and develop the appropriate theory for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Tomasz M. Tyranowski , Mathieu Desbrun

In this article we consider nonholonomic deformations of disk solutions in general relativity to generic off-diagonal metrics defining knew classes of exact solutions in 4D and 5D gravity. These solutions possess Lie algebroid symmetries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Variational integrators are momentum-preserving and symplectic numerical methods used to propagate the evolution of Hamiltonian systems. In this paper, we introduce a new class of variational integrators that achieve fourth-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Gerardo De La Torre , Todd Murphey

Lie systems in Quantum Mechanics are studied from a geometric point of view. In particular, we develop methods to obtain time evolution operators of time-dependent Schrodinger equations of Lie type and we show how these methods explain…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-21 José F. Cariñena , Javier de Lucas , Arturo Ramos

We consider nonholonomic geodesic flows of left-invariant metrics and left-invariant nonintegrable distributions on compact connected Lie groups. The equations of geodesic flows are reduced to the Euler-Poincare-Suslov equations on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bozidar Jovanovic

We develop a geometric version of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for discrete mechanics and constrained discrete mechanics. The geometric approach consists of using suitable Lagrangian and isotropic submanifolds. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-09 María Barbero-Liñán , Marta Farré Puiggalí , Sebastián Ferraro , David Martín de Diego

New systems of Laplace (Casimir) operators for the orthogonal and symplectic Lie algebras are constructed. The operators are expressed in terms of paths in graphs related to matrices formed by the generators of these Lie algebras with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Alexander Molev

We consider a broad class of systems of nonlinear integro-differential equations posed on the real line that arise as Euler-Lagrange equations to energies involving nonlinear nonlocal interactions. Although these equations are not readily…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Bente Bakker , Arnd Scheel

We establish a discrete operator--theoretic framework for the analysis of implicit Euler and Lie--Trotter splitting schemes for delay differential equations (DDEs). Both schemes are formulated in terms of discrete resolvent operators acting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hideki Kawahara
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