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In the study of 1D nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices, the conserved quantities play an important role in determining the actual behavior of heat conduction. Besides the total energy, total momentum and total stretch could also be conserved…
Suppose that $H(q,p)$ is a Hamiltonian on a manifold $M$, and $\tilde L(q,\dot q)$, the Rayleigh dissipation function, satisfies the same hypotheses as a Lagrangian on the manifold $M$. We provide a Hamiltonian framework that gives the…
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