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Many important theories in modern physics can be stated using differential geometry. Symplectic geometry is the natural framework to deal with autonomous Hamiltonian mechanics. This admits several generalizations for nonautonomous systems,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Xavier Rivas Guijarro

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

We present a geometric Lagrangian formulation for first-order field theories with dissipation. This formulation is based on the $k$-contact geometry introduced in a previous paper, and gathers contact Lagrangian mechanics with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

Systems of partial differential equations which appear in classical field theories can be studied geometrically using different geometrical structures, for example, k-symplectic geometry, k-cosymplectic geometry, multisymplectic geometry,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 S. Vilariño

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

This paper provides a new geometric framework to describe non-conservative field theories with explicit dependence on the space-time coordinates by combining the k-cosymplectic and k-contact formulations. This geometric framework, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Xavier Rivas

In this work we introduce contact Hamiltonian mechanics, an extension of symplectic Hamiltonian mechanics, and show that it is a natural candidate for a geometric description of non-dissipative and dissipative systems. For this purpose we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alessandro Bravetti , Hans Cruz , Diego Tapias

In this paper we study Hamiltonian systems on contact manifolds, which is an appropriate scenario to discuss dissipative systems. We prove a coisotropic reduction theorem similar to the one in symplectic mechanics.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Manuel Lainz Valcázar , Manuel de León

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

This article develops a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for non-conservative classical field theories, with particular emphasis on dissipative systems, in the framework of co-oriented k-contact geometry. We introduce evolution k-contact k-vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Javier de Lucas , Julia Lange , Xavier Rivas , Cristina Sardón

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

We provide new insights into the contact Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations of dissipative mechanical systems. In particular, we state a new form of the contact dynamical equations, and we review two recently presented Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

A geometric framework, called multicontact geometry, has recently been developed to study action-dependent field theories. In this work, we use this framework to analyze symmetries in action-dependent Lagrangian and Hamiltonian field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy , Bartosz M. Zawora

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

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

It is well known that k-contact geometry is a suitable framework to deal with non-conservative field theories. In this paper, we study some relations between solutions of the k-contact Euler-Lagrange equations, symmetries, dissipation laws…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Xavier Rivas , Modesto Salgado , Silvia Souto

Motivated by a geometric decomposition of the vector field associated with the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) equation for finite-level open quantum systems, we propose a generalization of the recently introduced contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Florio M. Ciaglia , Hans Cruz , Giuseppe Marmo

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

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

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. de León , C. Sardón

The aim of this paper is to develop a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for contact Hamiltonian systems. We find several forms for a suitable Hamilton-Jacobi equation accordingly to the Hamiltonian and the evolution vector fields for a given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Manuel de León , Manuel Laínz , Álvaro Muñiz--Brea
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