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A new geometric framework is developed to describe non-conservative classical field theories, which is based on multisymplectic and contact geometries. Assuming certain additional conditions and using the forms that define this multicontact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset , Miguel Carlos Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

In this work we study the theory of linearized gravity via the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. We make a brief review of this theory and its Lagrangian description, as well as a review of the Hamilton-Jacobi approach for singular systems. Then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-22 M. C. Bertin , B. M. Pimentel , C. E. Valcárcel , G. E. R. Zambrano

We review in simple terms the covariant approaches to the canonical formulation of classical relativistic field theories (in particular gauge field theories and general relativity) and we discuss the relationships between these approaches…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-06 Francois Gieres

In this paper, we derive a "hamiltonian formalism" for a wide class of mechanical systems, including classical hamiltonian systems, nonholonomic systems, some classes of servomechanism... This construction strongly relies in the geometry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-27 P. Balseiro , M. de Leon , J. C. Marrero , D. Martin de Diego

In this paper, we apply the geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory to obtain solutions of classical hamiltonian systems that are either compatible with a cosymplectic or a contact structure. As it is well known, the first structure plays a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. de León , C. Sardón

In this work we show how to complete some Hamilton-Jacobi solutions of linear, nonconservative classical oscillatory systems which appeared in the literature and we extend these complete solutions to the quantum mechanical case. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 A. de Souza Dutra , R. A. C. Correa , P. H. R. S. Moraes

Classical mechanics admits multiple equivalent formulations, from Newton's equations to the variational Lagrange-Hamilton framework and the scalar Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) theory. In the HJ formulation, classical ensembles evolve through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Yong Zhang

This review paper is concerned with the generalizations to field theory of the tangent and cotangent structures and bundles that play fundamental roles in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of classical mechanics. The paper…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manuel de León , Michael McLean , Larry K. Norris , Angel Rey-Roca , Modesto Salgado

In this paper we propose a geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory on a Nambu--Jacobi manifold. The advantange of a geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory is that if a Hamiltonian vector field $X_H$ can be projected into a configuration manifold by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 M. de León , C. Sardón

In this paper we analyze two different functional formulations of classical mechanics. In the first one the Jacobi fields are represented by bosonic variables and belong to the vector (or its dual) representation of the symplectic group. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 E. Deotto , E. Gozzi , D. Mauro

The aim of this paper is to create a large geometrical background on the dual 1-jet space J^{1*}(T,M) for a multi-time Hamiltonian approach of the electromagnetic and gravitational physical fields. Our geometric-physical construction is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Alexandru Oana , Mircea Neagu

We develop Hamilton-Jacobi theory for Chaplygin systems, a certain class of nonholonomic mechanical systems with symmetries, using a technique called Hamiltonization, which transforms nonholonomic systems into Hamiltonian systems. We give a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-15 Tomoki Ohsawa , Oscar E. Fernandez , Anthony M. Bloch , Dmitry V. Zenkov

Diffieties formalize geometrically the concept of differential equations. We introduce and study Hamilton-Jacobi diffieties. They are finite dimensional subdiffieties of a given diffiety and appear to play a special role in the field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-19 L. Vitagliano

In this paper, we give a survey of a geometrical theory of Jacobi forms of higher degree. And we present some geometric results and discuss some geometric problems to be investigated in the future.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jae-Hyun Yang

In this Thesis we develop the geometric formulations for higher-order autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems, and second-order field theories. In all cases, the physical information of the system is given in terms of a Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez

In this article we study multisymplectic geometry, i.e., the geometry of manifolds with a non-degenerate, closed differential form. First we describe the transition from Lagrangian to Hamiltonian classical field theories, and then we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Leonid Ryvkin , Tilmann Wurzbacher

In this paper, we study the underlying geometry in the classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The proposed formalism is also valid for nonholonomic systems. We first introduce the essential geometric ingredients: a vector bundle, a linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-14 Manuel de Leon , Juan Carlos Marrero , D. Martin de Diego

We present the covariant multisymplectic formalism for the so-called cubic Horndeski theories and discuss the geometrical and physical interpretation of the constraints that arise in the unified Lagrangian-Hamiltonian approach. We analyse…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 M. Doniz , J. Gaset

For a general mechanical system, it is shown that each solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation defines an N=2 pseudo-supersymmetric extension of the system, such that the usual relation of the momenta to Hamilton's principal function is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul K. Townsend

By using the Hamilton-Jacobi [$HJ$] framework the higher-order Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory is analyzed. The complete set of $HJ$ Hamiltonians and a generalized $HJ$ differential are reported, from which all symmetries of the theory are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-21 Alberto Escalante , Victor Alberto Zavala-Perez