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The irreversibility of the equations of classical dynamics (the Hamilton equations and the Liouville equation) in the space with multifractal time is demonstrated. The time is given on multifractal sets with fractional dimensions. The last…

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We examine stochastic processes that are used to model nonequilibrium processes (e.g, pulling RNA or dragging colloids) and so deliberately violate detailed balance. We argue that by combining an information-theoretic measure of…

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Graded Lagrangian formalism in terms of a Grassmann-graded variational bicomplex on graded manifolds is developed in a very general setting. This formalism provides the comprehensive description of reducible degenerate Lagrangian systems,…

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We show that a non-equilibrium diffusive dynamics in a finite-dimensional space takes in the Lagrangian frame of its mean local velocity an equilibrium form with the detailed balance property. This explains the equilibrium nature of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raphael Chetrite , Krzysztof Gawedzki

We investigate the behavior of dynamical systems with nonholonomic constraints when coupled to a thermal bath, focusing on the paradigmatic case of the Chaplygin sleigh. A straightforward Langevin-type approach obtained by naively adding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Eduardo A. Jagla , Anthony M. Bloch , Alberto G. Rojo

We present a novel extension of Hamiltonian mechanics to nonconservative systems built upon the Schwinger-Keldysh-Galley double-variable action principle. Departing from Galley's initial-value action, we clarify important subtleties…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Christopher Aykroyd , Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte

We propose a new classical approach for describing a system composed of $n$ interacting particles with variable mass connected by a single field with no predefined form ($n$-VMVF systems). Instead of assuming any particular nature or…

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Physical scenarios that require a relativistic treatment are ubiquitous in nature, ranging from cosmological objects to charge carriers in Dirac materials. Interestingly all of these situations have in common that the systems typically…

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For integrable systems in the sense of multidimensional consistency (MDC) we can consider the Lagrangian as a form, which is closed on solutions of the equations of motion. For 2-dimensional systems, described by partial difference…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-05-04 Sarah B. Lobb , Frank W. Nijhoff

We study new Legendre transforms in classical mechanics and investigate some of their general properties. The behaviour of the new functions is analyzed under coordinate transformations.When invariance under different kinds of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-23 Ginés R. Pérez Teruel

It is believed that thermodynamic laws are associated with random processes occurring in the system and, therefore, deterministic mechanical systems cannot be described within the framework of the thermodynamic approach. In this paper, we…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Sergey Rashkovskiy

In this article, we develop a functional-analytic framework to establish existence, uniqueness, regularity of disintegration, and statistical properties of equilibrium states for a broad class of dynamical systems, potentially discontinuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Rafael Bilbao , Rafael Lucena

In Continuum Mechanic a simple material body $\mathcal{B}$ is represeted by a three-dimensional differentiable manifold and the configuration space is given by the space of embeddings $Emb \left( \mathcal{B} , \mathbb{R}^{n} \right)$. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 V. M. Jiménez

In this paper we propose a process of lagrangian reduction and reconstruction for nonholonomic discrete mechanical systems where the action of a continuous symmetry group makes the configuration space a principal bundle. The result of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Javier Fernandez , Cora Tori , Marcela Zuccalli

Hamilton's principle of stationary action lies at the foundation of theoretical physics and is applied in many other disciplines from pure mathematics to economics. Despite its utility, Hamilton's principle has a subtle pitfall that often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chad R. Galley

It has been argued that gravity acts dissipatively on quantum-mechanical systems, inducing thermal fluctuations that become indistinguishable from quantum fluctuations. This has led some authors to demand that some form of time…

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This work extends previous 1D irreversible port-Hamiltonian system (IPHS) formulations to boundary-controlled ND distributed parameter systems describing conduction-diffusion fluid phenomena. Within a unified and thermodynamically…

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We propose a finite element discretisation approach for the incompressible Euler equations which mimics their geometric structure and their variational derivation. In particular, we derive a finite element method that arises from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Andrea Natale , Colin J. Cotter

Lagrangian systems with nonholonomic constraints may be considered as singular differential equations defined by some constraints and some multipliers. The geometry, solutions, symmetries and constants of motion of such equations are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xavier Gracia , Ruben Martin

Euler-Lagrange equations and variational integrators are developed for Lagrangian mechanical systems evolving on a product of two-spheres. The geometric structure of a product of two-spheres is carefully considered in order to obtain global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch