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Geometric representations provide a principled framework for structuring the description of latent constructs and clarifying sources of uncertainty in their dimensional characterisation. We introduce a novel geometric representation of…

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Controlled Lagrangian and matching techniques are developed for the stabilization of relative equilibria and equilibria of discrete mechanical systems with symmetry as well as broken symmetry. Interesting new phenomena arise in the…

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This paper surveys results found by the authors in the previous papers (see for example, A. Duyunova, V. Lychagin, S. Tychkov, Differential invariants for spherical layer flows of a viscid fluid, Journal of Geometry and Physics, 130,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Anna Duyunova , Valentin Lychagin , Sergey Tychkov

The inverse problem of the calculus of variations consists in determining if the solutions of a given system of second order differential equations correspond with the solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equations for some regular Lagrangian.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-27 María Barbero-Liñán , Marta Farré Puiggalí , David Martín de Diego

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a popular data-driven framework to extract linear dynamics from complex high-dimensional systems. In this work, we study the system identification properties of DMD. We first show that DMD is invariant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Jan Heiland , Benjamin Unger

We begin a study of possibilities of describing hadrons in terms of monolocal fields which transform as proper Lorentz group representations decomposable into an infinite direct sum of finite-dimensional irreducible representations. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. M. Slad

In this work we introduce a category $LDP_d$ of discrete-time dynamical systems, that we call discrete Lagrange--D'Alembert--Poincar\'e systems, and study some of its elementary properties. Examples of objects of $LDP_d$ are nonholonomic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Javier Fernandez , Cora Tori , Marcela Zuccalli

We assign some kind of invariant manifolds to a given integrable PDE (its discrete or semi-discrete variant). First, we linearize the equation around its arbitrary solution $u$. Then we construct a differential (respectively, difference)…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-04-25 Ismagil Habibullin , Aigul Khakimova

We identify materially defined regions in unsteady two-dimensional flows that combine finite-time contraction with elevated accumulated intrinsic rotation along trajectories, which we term \emph{Lagrangian rotating contracting structures}…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-29 F. J. Beron-Vera

This paper explores the asymptotic properties of non-autonomous Lagrangian systems, assuming that the associated Tonelli Lagrangian converges to a time-periodic function. Specifically, given a continuous initial condition, we provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Veronica Danesi , Cristian Mendico , Xuan Tao , Kaizhi Wang

Structurally stable (rough) flows on surfaces have only finitely many singularities and finitely many closed orbits, all of which are hyperbolic, and they have no trajectories joining saddle points. The violation of the last property leads…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Vladislav Kruglov , Dmitry Malyshev , Olga Pochinka

We investigate some fundamental features of a class of non-linear relativistic lagrangian field theories with kinetic self-coupling. We focus our attention upon theories admitting static, spherically symmetric solutions in three space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Joaquin Diaz-Alonso , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We develop a variational principle that extends the notion of a shearless transport barrier from steady to general unsteady two-dimensional flows and maps defined over a finite time interval. This principle reveals that hyperbolic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Mohammad Farazmand , Daniel Blazevski , George Haller

Lagrangian descriptors reveal the dynamical skeleton governing transport mechanisms of a generic flow. In doing so, they unveil geometrical structures in the phase space that separate regions with different qualitative behavior. This work…

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Linear time-periodic (LTP) dynamical systems frequently appear in the modeling of phenomena related to fluid dynamics, electronic circuits, and structural mechanics via linearization centered around known periodic orbits of nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Caleb C. Magruder , Serkan Gugercin , Christopher A. Beattie

We consider symmetries and reduction in non-relativistic many-body quantum mechanics, with the aim of identifying physically meaningful observables in systems such as molecules and crystalline solids. To this end, we propose a unified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ville J. Härkönen

In the application of the Expectation Maximization algorithm to identification of dynamical systems, internal states are typically chosen as latent variables, for simplicity. In this work, we propose a different choice of latent variables,…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-06 Jack Umenberger , Johan Wågberg , Ian R. Manchester , Thomas B. Schön

It has been proved by S.L.Ziglin, for a large class of 2-degree-of-freedom (d.o.f) Hamiltonian systems, that transverse intersections of the invariant manifolds of saddle fixed points imply infinite branching of solutions in the complex…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Vassilios M. Rothos , Tassos C. Bountis

In this paper we provide a sufficient condition for the linear instability of a periodic orbit for a free period Lagrangian system on a Riemannian manifold. The main result establish a general criterion for the linear instability of a maybe…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Alessandro Portaluri , Li Wu , Ran Yang

We propose a novel approach for performing dynamical system identification, based upon the comparison of simulated and observed physical invariant measures. While standard methods adopt a Lagrangian perspective by directly treating…

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