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This manuscript introduces novel approaches to three phenomena. First, we extend the algebraic formulation of kinetic theory within the contact framework by making explicit the gauge freedom, thereby obtaining a formulation in which the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Begüm Ateşli , Oğul Esen , Miroslav Grmela , Michal Pavelka

In this paper, we introduce a geometric description of contact Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems on Lie algebroids in the framework of contact geometry, using the theory of prolongations. We discuss the relation between Lagrangian and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Alexandre Anahory Simoes , Leonardo Colombo , Manuel de Leon , Modesto Salgado , Silvia Souto

Systems with dissipation can be described using contact geometry. We introduce the concepts of symmetries and dissipation laws for contact Hamiltonian systems and study the relation between them. This is an ongoing collaboration with Xavier…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Jordi Gaset

This paper introduces a new class of Lie systems that are Hamiltonian relative to a $k$-contact manifold. We show that a recent distributional approach to $k$-contact manifolds along with a related $k$-contact Hamiltonian vector field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Javier de Lucas , Xavier Rivas , Tomasz Sobczak

In previous papers, a geometric framework has been developed to describe non-conservative field theories as a kind of modified Lagrangian and Hamiltonian field theories. This approach is that of $k$-contact Hamiltonian systems, which is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xavier Gràcia , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

In this article, we present a brief overview of some of the recent progress made in identifying and generating finite dimensional integrable nonlinear dynamical systems, exhibiting interesting oscillatory and other solution properties,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Lakshmanan , V. K. Chandrasekar

In this paper we present a unified Lagrangian--Hamiltonian geometric formalism to describe time-dependent contact mechanical systems, based on the one first introduced by K. Kamimura and later formalized by R. Skinner and R. Rusk. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Xavier Rivas , Daniel Torres

In this paper we propose a Hamilton-Jacobi theory for implicit contact Hamiltonian systems in two different ways. One is the understanding of implicit contact Hamiltonian dynamics as a Legendrian submanifold of the tangent contact space,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Oğul Esen , Manuel Lainz Valcázar , Manuel de León , Cristina Sardón

We present a unified geometric framework for describing both the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms of contact autonomous mechanical systems, which is based on the approach of the pionnering work of R. Skinner and R. Rusk. This framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset , Manuel Laínz , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

The notion of Jacobi-Haantjes manifold, consisting of a Jacobi manifold endowed with an algebra of extended Haantjes operator fields, is proposed as a natural geometric framework which allows us to define the notion of integrability of both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Rafael Azuaje , Piergiulio Tempesta

Starting from a contact Hamiltonian description of Li\'enard systems, we introduce a new family of explicit geometric integrators for these nonlinear dynamical systems. Focusing on the paradigmatic example of the van der Pol oscillator, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Federico Zadra , Alessandro Bravetti , Marcello Seri

In this paper we discuss nonholonomic contact Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems, that is, systems with a kind of dissipation that are also subject to nonholonomic constraints. We introduce the so-called contact Eden bracket that allows us…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 V. M. Jiménez , M. De León

We describe a method, based on "hard" contact topology, of showing the existence of semi-infinite trajectories of contact Hamiltonian flows which start on one Legendrian submanifold and asymptotically converge to another Legendrian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Michael Entov , Leonid Polterovich

In this paper, we apply the geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory to obtain solutions of Hamiltonian systems in Classical Mechanics, that are either compatible with a cosymplectic or a contact structure. As it is well known, the first structure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 M. de León , C. Sardón

We study the practical scope of the $k$-contact Hamilton--De Donder--Weyl formalism as a geometric framework for dissipative field equations. In particular, our work focuses on canonical $k$-contact manifolds on $\bigoplus^k {\rm…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 J. de Lucas , J. Lange , M. Krych

Contact Hamiltonian dynamics is a subject that has still a short history, but with relevant applications in many areas: thermodynamics, cosmology, control theory, and neurogeometry, among others. In recent years there has been a great…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Manuel de León , Manuel Lainz

In this paper we address the problem of identifying contracting systems among dynamical systems appearing in mechanics. First, we introduce a sufficient condition to identify contracting systems in a general Riemannian manifold. Then, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Alexandre Anahory Simoes , Leonardo Colombo

A longstanding tool to characterize the evolution of open Markovian quantum systems is the GKSL (Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad) master equation. However, in some cases, open quantum systems can be effectively described with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Federico Roccati , G. Massimo Palma , Fabio Bagarello , Francesco Ciccarello

Several dynamical systems of interest in celestial mechanics can be written in the form of a Newton equation with time-dependent damping, linear in the velocities. For instance, the modified Kepler problem, the spin-orbit model and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Alessandro Bravetti , Marcello Seri , Mats Vermeeren , Federico Zadra

We show that the contact dynamics obtained from the Herglotz variational principle can be described as a constrained nonholonomic or vakonomic ordinary Lagrangian system depending on a dissipative variable with an adequate choice of one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Manuel de León , Manuel Laínz , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Narciso Román-Roy