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Contact geometry allows to describe some thermodynamic and dissipative systems. In this paper we introduce a new geometric structure in order to describe time-dependent contact systems: cocontact manifolds. Within this setting we develop…

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The geometric framework for the Hamilton-Jacobi theory is used to study this theory in the ambient of higher-order mechanical systems, both in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms. Thus, we state the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 Leonardo Colombo , Manuel de León , Pedro Daniel Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy

In this paper we extend the geometric formalism of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory for hamiltonian mechanics to the case of classical field theories in the framework of multisymplectic geometry and Ehresmann connections.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 M. de Leon , J. C. Marrero , D. Martin de Diego

We propose a novel approach to contact Hamiltonian mechanics which, in contrast to the one dominating in the literature, serves also for non-trivial contact structures. In this approach Hamiltonians are no longer functions on the contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Katarzyna Grabowska , Janusz Grabowski

In this paper, we construct Hamilton-Jacobi equations for a great variety of mechanical systems (nonholonomic systems subjected to linear or affine constraints, dissipative systems subjected to external forces, time-dependent mechanical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Balseiro , J. C. Marrero , D. Martin de Diego , E. Padron

This work is devoted to review the modern geometric description of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms of the Hamilton--Jacobi theory. The relation with the "classical" Hamiltonian approach using canonical transformations is also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Narciso Román-Roy

In this paper, we develop a Hamilton-Jacobi theory for forced Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems. We study the complete solutions, particularize for Rayleigh systems and present some examples. Additionally, we present a method for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Manuel de León , Manuel Lainz , Asier López-Gordón

A proposal for the Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the context of the covariant formulation of Hamiltonian systems is done. The current approach consists in applying Dirac's method to the corresponding action which implies the inclusion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Aldo A. Martinez-Merino , Merced Montesinos

We develop a new geometric framework suitable for dealing with Hamiltonian field theories with dissipation. To this end we define the notions of $k$-contact structure and $k$-contact Hamiltonian system. This is a generalization of both the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

We generalise the theories of cosymplectic, contact, and cocontact manifolds to the infinite-dimensional setting and calculate model examples of time-dependent and dissipative Hamiltonian systems.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Fraser Aidan Kelvin Sanders

Jacobi structures are known to generalize Poisson structures, encompassing symplectic, cosymplectic, and Lie-Poisson manifolds. Notably, other intriguing geometric structures -- such as contact and locally conformal symplectic manifolds --…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Pingyuan Wei , Qiao Huang , Jinqiao Duan

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation of classical mechanics is approached as a model reduction of conservative particle mechanics where the velocity degrees-of-freedom are eliminated. This viewpoint allows an extension of the association of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Amit Acharya

The quantization method based on the quantum Hamiltonian Jacobi equation, is extended to two-dimensional non-separable but integrable Hamiltonians. It is shown that each wave function for those systems corresponds to a well-defined family…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Mario Fusco Girard

It is shown that the parameters contained in any two complete solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, corresponding to a given Hamiltonian, are related by means of a time-independent canonical transformation and that, in some cases, a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 G. F. Torres del Castillo , G. S. Anaya González

We develop a unified geometric framework for mechanical systems that combine conservative and dissipative dynamics by formulating them on contact manifolds. Within this setting, we identify the Reeb vector field as the intrinsic generator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Vinesh Vijayan , Pasupuleti Thejasree , P Satish Kumar , K Suganya

In this article we inspect the dynamics of classical field theories with a local conformal behavior. Our interest in the multisymplectic setting comes from its suitable description of field theories, and the conformal character has been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Ogul Esen , Manuel de León , Cristina Sardón , Marcin Zając

In this paper we develope, in a geometric framework, a Hamilton-Jacobi Theory for general dynamical systems. Such a theory contains the classical theory for Hamiltonian systems on a cotangent bundle and recent developments in the framework…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Sergio Grillo , Edith Padrón

We determine the Hamiltonian vector field on an odd dimensional manifold endowed with almost cosymplectic structure. This is a generalization of the corresponding Hamiltonian vector field on manifolds with almost transitive contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Stefan Berceanu

In order to describe the impact of different geometric structures and constraints for the dynamics of a Hamiltonian system, in this paper, for a magnetic Hamiltonian system defined by a magnetic symplectic form, we first drive precisely the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Hong Wang

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