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We develop a method for systematically constructing Lagrangian functions for dissipative mechanical, electrical and, mechatronic systems. We derive the equations of motion for some typical mechatronic systems using deterministic principles…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 A. Allison , C. E. M. Pearce , D. Abbott

In this work, we analyse the discretisation of a recently proposed new Lagrangian approach to optimal control problems of affine-controlled second-order differential equations with cost functions quadratic in the controls. We propose exact…

A complete understanding of physical systems requires models that are accurate and obeys natural conservation laws. Recent trends in representation learning involve learning Lagrangian from data rather than the direct discovery of governing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-10 Tapas Tripura , Souvik Chakraborty

It is shown that the dynamical evolution of linear perturbations on a static space-time is governed by a constrained wave equation for the extrinsic curvature tensor. The spatial part of the wave operator is manifestly elliptic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Sarbach , M. Heusler , O. Brodbeck

We derive an exact solution for a simple non-autonomous delay differential equation (DDE) over the entire real-time axis, representing it as a sum of Gaussian-shaped dynamics with distinct peak positions. This marks the first explicit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Kenta Ohira

The method of variational completion allows one to transform an (in principle, arbitrary) system of partial differential equations -- based on an intuitive ``educated guess'' -- into the Euler-Lagrange one attached to a Lagrangian, by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Ludovic Ducobu , Nicoleta Voicu

A self-consistent quadratic theory is presented to account for nonlinear contributions in quantum dynamics. Evolution equations are shown to depend on higher-order gradients of the Hamiltonian, which are incorporated via their equations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Frank Ernesto Quintela Rodriguez

The concept of nonlinear self-adjointness is employed to construct the conservation laws for fractional evolution equations using its Lie point symmetries. The approach is demonstrated on subdiffusion and diffusion-wave equations with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 Stanislav Yu. Lukashchuk

Many real-world systems exhibit ``noisy'' evolution in time; interpreting their finitely-sampled behavior as arising from continuous-time processes (in the It\^o or Stratonovich sense) has led to significant success in modeling and analysis…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 David Sabin-Miller , Daniel M. Abrams

It is well known that the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions of field theories are equivalent at the discrete time level when variational integrators are used. Besides the symplectic Hamiltonian structure, many physical systems exhibit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Andrea Brugnoli , Volker Mehrmann

There is a growing attention given to utilizing Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics with network training in order to incorporate physics into the network. Most commonly, conservative systems are modeled, in which there are no frictional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Veera Sundararaghavan , Megna N. Shah , Jeff P. Simmons

The multiplicative Newton-like method developed by the author et al. is extended to the situation where the dynamics is restricted to the orthogonal group. A general framework is constructed without specifying the cost function. Though the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Toshinao Akuzawa

We analyze the relation between the concept of auxiliary variables and the Inverse problem of the calculus of variations to construct a Lagrangian from a given set of equations of motion. The problem of the construction of a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ignacio Cortese , J. Antonio Garcia

Most physical systems are modelled by an ordinary or a partial differential equation, like the n-body problem in celestial mechanics. In some cases, for example when studying the long term behaviour of the solar system or for complex…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jacky Cresson , Sébastien Darses

We lift the constraint of a diagonal representation of the Hamiltonian by searching for square integrable bases that support a tridiagonal matrix representation of the wave operator. Doing so results in exactly solvable problems with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Alhaidari

The Lagrangian formalism is used to derive covariant equations that are suitable for use in continuously distributed matter in curved spacetime. Special attention is given to theoretical representation, in which the Lagrangian and its…

General Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Sergey G. Fedosin

Employing a phase space which includes the (Riemann-Liouville) fractional derivative of curves evolving on real space, we develop a restricted variational principle for Lagrangian systems yielding the so-called restricted fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Fernando Jiménez , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

We present a new formulation of self-dual nonlinear electrodynamics in which interactions are determined by an auxiliary-field potential, with causality ensuring a unique solution to the auxiliary-field equation. The long-standing problem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-08 Jorge G. Russo , Paul K. Townsend

Learning a causal directed acyclic graph from data is a challenging task that involves solving a combinatorial problem for which the solution is not always identifiable. A new line of work reformulates this problem as a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Philippe Brouillard , Sébastien Lachapelle , Alexandre Lacoste , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Alexandre Drouin

In this paper we address the problem of representing solutions of a system of scalar linear partial difference equations akin to state space equations of 1-D systems theory. We first obtain a representation formula for a special class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Debasattam Pal , Harish K. Pillai