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Many theories of physical interest, which admit a Hamiltonian description, exhibit symmetries under a particular class of non - strictly canonical transformation, known as dynamical similarities. The presence of such symmetries allows a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Callum Bell , David Sloan

Several interesting physical systems, such as the Lovelock extension of General Relativity in higher dimensions, classical time crystals, k-essence fields, Horndeski theories, compressible fluids, and nonlinear electrodynamics, have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-03 Alexsandre L. Ferreira Junior , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Jorge Zanelli

When a Hamiltonian system is subject to constraints which depend explicitly on time, difficulties can arise in attempting to reduce the system to its physical phase space. Specifically, it is non-trivial to restrict the system in such a way…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Jonathan M. Evans , Philip A. Tuckey

We will present a consistent description of Hamiltonian dynamics on the ``symplectic extended phase space'' that is analogous to that of a time-\underline{in}dependent Hamiltonian system on the conventional symplectic phase space. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Jürgen Struckmeier

We discuss a systematic way in which a relational dynamics can be established relative to periodic clocks both in the classical and quantum theories, emphasising the parallels between them. We show that: (1) classical and quantum relational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Leonardo Chataignier , Philipp A. Hoehn , Maximilian P. E. Lock , Fabio M. Mele

Local observation is an important problem both for the foundations of a quantum theory of gravity and for applications to quantum-cosmological problems such as eternal inflation. While gauge invariant local observables can't be defined, it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Gary , Steven B. Giddings

We study spacetime diffeomorphisms in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms of generally covariant systems. We show that the gauge group for such a system is characterized by having generators which are projectable under the Legendre map.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. M. Pons , D. C. Salisbury , L. C. Shepley

In a classical Hamiltonian theory with second class constraints the phase space functions on the constraint surface are observables. We give general formulas for extended observables, which are expressions representing the observables in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon Lyakhovich , Robert Marnelius

We introduce a framework to identify Fluctuation Relations for vector-valued observables in physical systems evolving through a stochastic dynamics. These relations arise from the particular structure of a suitable entropic functional and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Raphael Chetrite , Stefano Marcantoni

This article is concerned with analytic Hamiltonian dynamical systems in infinite dimension in a neighborhood of an elliptic fixed point. Given a quadratic Hamiltonian, we consider the set of its analytic higher order perturbations. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Michela Procesi , Laurent Stolovitch

We derived a condition under which a coupled system consisting of two finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems becomes a Hamiltonian system. In many cases, an industrial system can be modeled as a coupled system of some subsystems. Although…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Shunpei Terakawa , Takaharu Yaguchi

In this paper we will explore fundamental constraints on the evolution of certain symplectic subvolumes possessed by any Hamiltonian phase space. This research has direct application to optimal control and control of conservative mechanical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Jared M. Maruskin , Daniel J. Scheeres , Anthony M. Bloch

The application of the Legendre transformation to a hyperregular Lagrangian system results in a Hamiltonian vector field generated by a Hamiltonian defined on the phase space of the mechanical system. The Legendre transformation in its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew , Pawel Urbanski

Hamiltonian systems are differential equations which describe systems in classical mechanics, plasma physics, and sampling problems. They exhibit many structural properties, such as a lack of attractors and the presence of conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

Several proposals to deal with the dynamics of general relativity involve gauge fixings or the introduction matter fields in terms of which the theory is deparameterized. The resulting theories have true Hamiltonians for their evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

In this paper we show how the well-know local symmetries of Lagrangeans systems, and in particular the diffeomorphism invariance, emerge in the Hamiltonian formulation. We show that only the constraints which are linear in the momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 V. Mukhanov , A. Wipf

The long-term evolution of astrophysical systems is driven by a Hamiltonian that is independent of the fast angle. As this Hamiltonian may contain explicitly time-dependent parameters, the conservation of mechanical energy is not guaranteed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Barnabás Deme

In this work, we revise the concept of foliation and related aspects that are crucial when formulating the Hamiltonian evolution for various theories beyond General Relativity. In particular, we show the relation between the kinematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Daniel Blixt , Alejandro Jiménez Cano , Aneta Wojnar

The cyclic evolutions and associated geometric phases induced by time-independent Hamiltonians are studied for the case when the evolution operator becomes the identity (those processes are called {\it evolution loops}). We make a detailed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 David J. Fernández C

A natural example of evolution can be described by a time-dependent two degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian. We choose the case where initially the Hamiltonian derives from a general cubic potential, the linearised system has frequencies 1 and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ferdinand Verhulst