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We develop a master equation formalism to describe the evolution of the average density matrix of a closed quantum system driven by a stochastic Hamiltonian. The average over random processes generally results in decoherence effects in…

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This article focuses on three main contributions. Firstly, we provide an in-depth overview of the nonlocal Lagrangian formalism. Secondly, we introduce an extended version of the second Noether's theorem tailored for nonlocal Lagrangians.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-08 Carlos Heredia , Josep Llosa

The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we give a formal introduction to the basics of the mathematical framework of classical mechanics. Along the way, we prove a Hamiltonian and a Lagrangian version of Noether's Theorem, an important…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Yannis Bähni

We give a unitary irreducible representation of the proper Poincar\'e group that leads to an operational version of the classical relativistic dynamics of a massive spinless particle. Unlike quantum mechanics, in this operational theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 A. D. Bermúdez Manjarres

We consider a geometric framework for analytical mechanics with external forces. Four versions of this framework are considered. A variational principle with boundary terms and external forces.The second and the third versions are the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Marmo , Wodzimierz M. Tulczyjew , Pawel Urbanski

his paper reviews modern geometrical dynamics and control of humanoid robots. This general Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism starts with a proper definition of humanoid's configuration manifold, which is a set of all robot's active joint…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-05-17 Vladimir G. Ivancevic , Tijana T. Ivancevic

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

The objective of this work is twofold: First, we analyze the relation between the k-cosymplectic and the k-symplectic Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms in classical field theories. In particular, we prove the equivalence between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Narciso Roman-Roy , Angel M. Rey , Modesto Salgado , Silvia Vilarino

A survey of topics of recent interest in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems, including accessible discussions of regularization of the central force problem; inequivalent Lagrangians and Hamiltonians; constants of central force…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 James T. Wheeler

We study the Hamiltonian formalism for second order and fourth order nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. In the case of second order equation, we consider cubic and logarithmic nonlinearities. Since the Lagrangians generating these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Ali Pazarci , Umut Can Turhan , Nader Ghazanfari , Ilmar Gahramanov

Second-order Lagrangian densities admitting a first-order Hamiltonian formalism are studied; namely, i) for each second-order Lagrangian density on an arbitrary fibred manifold $p\colon E\to N$ the Poincar\'e-Cartan form of which is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 E. Rosado María , J. Muñoz Masqué

We study relations between vakonomically and nonholonomically constrained Lagrangian dynamics for the same set of linear constraints. The basic idea is to compare both situations at the level of variational principles, not equations of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Michał Jóźwikowski , Witold Respondek

We consider systems characterized by the presence of a rapidly oscillating force. A general method is presented for the construction of the effective action governing the large-scale nonlinear dynamics of such systems order by order in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-29 Afshin Besharat , Alexander A. Penin

Constrained Hamiltonian description of the classical limit is utilized in order to derive consistent dynamical equations for hybrid quantum-classical systems. Starting with a compound quantum system in the Hamiltonian formulation conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 M. Radonjic , S. Prvanovic , N. Buric

A hybrid framework is developed that highlights and unifies the most important aspects of the Noether correspondence between symmetries and conserved integrals in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. Several main results are shown: (1) a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Stephen C. Anco

We develop a time-non-local (TNL) formalism based on variational calculus, which allows for the analysis of TNL Lagrangians. We derive the generalized Euler-Lagrange equations starting from the Hamilton's principle and, by defining a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Luca Ferialdi , Angelo Bassi

This paper discusses reduction by symmetries for autonomous and non-autonomous forced mechanical systems with inelastic collisions. In particular, we introduce the notion of generalized hybrid momentum map and hybrid constants of the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Leonardo J. Colombo , Manuel de León , María Emma Eyrea Irazú , Asier López-Gordón

We introduce the concept of gauged Lagrangian $1$-forms, extending the notion of Lagrangian $1$-forms to the setting of gauge theories. This general formalism is applied to a natural geometric Lagrangian $1$-form on the cotangent bundle of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Vincent Caudrelier , Derek Harland , Anup Anand Singh , Benoit Vicedo

Starting with the first-order singular Lagrangian, the problem of the quantization of a dynamical system constrained to a submanifold embedded in the higher-dimensional Euclidean space is investigated within the framework of operatorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Nakamura

We present the symplectic algorithm in the Lagrangian formalism for the Hamiltonian systems by virtue of the noncommutative differential calculus with respect to the discrete time and the Euler--Lagrange cohomological concepts. We also show…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Y. Guo , Y. Q. Li , K. Wu