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Singular theories, characterised by the presence of degeneracies in their Lagrangian or Hamiltonian descriptions, require the systematic implementation of constraints in order to obtain well-defined dynamics. While the symplectic framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Callum Bell , David Sloan

In contact Hamiltonian systems, the so-called dissipated quantities are akin to conserved quantities in classical Hamiltonian systems. In this paper, we prove a Noether's theorem for non-autonomous contact Hamiltonian systems,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Jordi Gaset , Asier López-Gordón , Xavier Rivas

In the recent years, with the incorporation of contact geometry, there has been a renewed interest in the study of dissipative or non-conservative systems in physics and other areas of applied mathematics. The equations arising when…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Jordi Gaset , Manuel Lainz , Arnau Mas , Xavier Rivas

This paper explores the relationship between Cartan symmetries, dynamical similarities, and dynamical symmetries in contact Hamiltonian mechanics. By introducing an alternative decomposition of vector fields, we characterize these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Federico Zadra , Marcello Seri

We formulate and study a generalized virial theorem for contact Hamiltonian systems. Such systems describe mechanical systems in the presence of simple dissipative forces such as Rayleigh friction, or the vertical motion of a particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Aritra Ghosh

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

We present a complete theory of higher-order autonomous contact mechanics, which allows us to describe higher-order dynamical systems with dissipation. The essential tools for the theory are the extended higher-order tangent bundles, ${\rm…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset , Manuel Laínz , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Narciso Román-Roy

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

k-Contact geometry is a generalisation of contact geometry to analyse field theories. We develop an approach to k-contact geometry based on distributions that are distributionally maximally non-integrable and admit, locally, k commuting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Javier de Lucas , Xavier Rivas , Tomasz Sobczak

This work presents a comprehensive overview of three recently developed geometric frameworks for the study of classical action-dependent field theories. Specifically, the three underlying geometric structures - namely, k-contact,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Jordi Gaset-Rifà , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

Contact integrators are a family of geometric numerical schemes which guarantee the conservation of the contact structure. In this work we review the construction of both the variational and Hamiltonian versions of these methods. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Alessandro Bravetti , Marcello Seri , Federico Zadra

Dissipative phenomena manifest in multiple mechanical systems. In this dissertation, different geometric frameworks for modelling non-conservative dynamics are considered. The objective is to generalize several results from conservative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Asier López-Gordón

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel Carlos Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas

Starting from the geometric description of quantum systems, we propose a novel approach to time-independet dissipative quantum processes according to which the energy is dissipated but the coherence of the states is preserved. Our proposal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Hans Cruz-Prado , Alessandro Bravetti , Angel Garcia-Chung

We introduce a new geometric framework for relativistic particle dynamics based on contact geometry and suitable for treating dissipative processes like particle decay. The dynamics is formulated on a nine--dimensional extended phase space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Begum Atesli , Ogul Esen , Michal Pavelka

We develop a field theory with dissipation based on a finite range of wave propagation and associated gapped momentum states in the wave spectrum. We analyze the properties of the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian with two scalar fields in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Matteo Baggioli , Mikhail Vasin , Vadim Brazhkin , Kostya Trachenko

As a generalization and extension of our previous paper [Escobar-Ruiz and Azuaje, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 57, 105202 (2024)], in this work, the notions of particular integral and particular integrability in classical mechanics are extended…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 R. Azuaje , A. M. Escobar-Ruiz

Due to the emergence of symplectic geometry, the geometric treatment of mechanics underwent a great development during the last century. In this scenario the pressence of symmetries in Hamiltonian systems leads naturally to the existence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Juan Manso García-Mauriño

We provide a geometric perspective on the kinetic interaction of matter and radiation, based on a pair bracket approach. We discuss the interaction of kinetic theories via dissipative brackets, with our fundamental example being the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Brian K. Tran , Joshua W. Burby , Ben S. Southworth

In this paper we extend the geometric formalism of Hamilton-Jacobi theory for Mechanics to the case of classical field theories in the k-symplectic framework.

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