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We discuss a recently proposed variational principle for deriving the variational equations associated to any Lagrangian system. The principle gives simultaneously the Lagrange and the variational equations of the system. We define a new…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 H. N Núñez-Yépez , Joaquín Delgado , A. L. Salas-Brito

The Hamiltonian formalism is extremely elegant and convenient to mechanics problems. However, its application to the classical field theories is a difficult task. In fact, you can set one to one correspondence between the Lagrangian and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 D. S. Kulyabov , A. V. Korolkova , L. A. Sevastyanov

First-class constraints constitute a potential obstacle to the computation of a Poisson bracket in Dirac's theory of constrained Hamiltonian systems. Using the pseudoinverse instead of the inverse of the matrix defined by the Poisson…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-17 C. Chandre

Dirac algorithm allows to construct Hamiltonian systems for singular systems, and so contributing to its successful quantization. A drawback of this method is that the resulting quantized theory does not have manifest Lorentz invariance.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Hernán Cendra , Santiago Capriotti

We present a novel framework for quantizing constrained quantum systems in which the processes of quantization and constraint enforcement are performed simultaneously. The approach is based on an extension of the stationary action…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Jianhao M. Yang

In the framework of polysymplectic Hamiltonian formalism, degenerate Lagrangian field systems are described as multi-Hamiltonian systems with Lagrangian constraints. The physically relevant case of degenerate quadratic Lagrangians is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sardanashvily

A proximal safeguarded augmented Lagrangian method for minimizing the difference of convex (DC) functions over a nonempty, closed and convex set with additional linear equality as well as convex inequality constraints is presented. Thereby,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Christian Kanzow , Tanja Neder

We study the constrained Ostrogradski-Hamilton framework for the equations of motion provided by mechanical systems described by second-order derivative actions with a linear dependence in the accelerations. We stress out the peculiar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-30 Miguel Cruz , Rosario Gomez-Cortes , Alberto Molgado , Efrain Rojas

As an alternative to the covariant Ostrogradski method, we show that higher-derivative relativistic Lagrangian field theories can be reduced to second differential-order by writing them directly as covariant two-derivative theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 F. J. de Urries , J. Julve

Constructions introduced by Dirac for singular Lagrangians are extended and reinterpreted to cover cases when kernel distributions are either nonintegrable or of nonconstant rank, and constraint sets need not be closed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Larry Bates , Jedrzej Sniatycki

Non-convex functional constrained optimization problems have gained substantial attention in machine learning and data science, addressing broad requirements that typically go beyond the often performance-centric objectives. An influential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Sang Bin Moon , Jong Gwang Kim , Ashish Chandra , Christopher Brinton , Abolfazl Hashemi

Dynamical systems, described by Lagrangians with first- and second-class constraints, are investigated. In the Dirac approach to the generalized Hamiltonian formalism, the classification and separation of the first- and second-class…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Gogilidze , Yu. S. Surovtsev

We discuss two generalizations of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, one in which a given mechanical system can be brought into the form of Lagrangian equations with non-conservative forces of a generalized Rayleigh…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-11 T. Mestdag , W. Sarlet , M. Crampin

In this paper, we present a Lagrangian formalism for nonequilibrium thermodynamics. This formalism is an extension of the Hamilton principle in classical mechanics that allows the inclusion of irreversible phenomena in both discrete and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

A consistent guiding-center Hamiltonian theory is derived by Lie-transform perturbation method, with terms up to second order in magnetic-field nonuniformity. Consistency is demonstrated by showing that the guiding-center transformation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Natalia Tronko , Alain Brizard

We consider the problem of constrained motion along a conic path under a given external potential function. The model is described as a second-class system capturing the behavior of a certain class of specific quantum field theories. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 R. L. Caires , S. L. Oliveira , R. Thibes

We analyze a structure of the singular Lagrangian $L$ with first and second class constraints of an arbitrary stage. We show that there exist an equivalent Lagrangian (called the extended Lagrangian $\tilde L$) that generates all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-27 A. A. Deriglazov

The Lagrange-d'Alembert equations with constraints belonging to $H^{1,\infty}$ have been considered. A concept of weak solutions to these equations has been built. Global existence theorem for Cauchy problem has been obtained.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Andrey Volkov , Oleg Zubelevich

Learning and predicting the dynamics of physical systems requires a profound understanding of the underlying physical laws. Recent works on learning physical laws involve generalizing the equation discovery frameworks to the discovery of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Tapas Tripura , Souvik Chakraborty

The constraint algebra is derived in the second order tetrad Hamiltonian formalism of the bigravity. This is done by a straightforward calculation without involving any insights, implicit functions, and Dirac brackets. The tetrad approach…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Vladimir O. Soloviev