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The evolution of a large class of biological, physical and engineering systems can be studied through both dynamical systems theory and Hamiltonian mechanics. The former theory, in particular its specialization to study systems with…

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The scalar-tensor theories of gravity in spacetime dimensions $D+1>2$ are studied. By doing Hamiltonian analysis, we obtain the geometrical dynamics of the theories from their Lagrangian. The Hamiltonian formalism indicates that the…

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We study a nonequilibrium mean field Ising model in the low temperature phase regime, where metastable equilibrium states develop a cuspidal (spinodal) singularity. We focus on celebrated Glauber dynamics, and design a contact Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Shin-itiro Goto , Shai Lerer , Leonid Polterovich

The k-symplectic formulation of field theories is especially simple, since only tangent and cotangent bundles are needed in its description. Its defining elements show a close relationship with those in the symplectic formulation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Xavier Gracia , Ruben Martin , Narciso Roman-Roy

The multi-symplectic form for Hamiltonian PDEs leads to a general framework for geometric numerical schemes that preserve a discrete version of the conservation of symplecticity. The cases for systems or PDEs with dissipation terms has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Hongling Su , Mengzhao Qin

Hamiltonian structures for spatially compact locally homogeneous vacuum universes are investigated, provided that the set of dynamical variables contains the \Teich parameters, parameterizing the purely global geometry. One of the key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Masayuki Tanimoto , Tatsuhiko Koike , Akio Hosoya

In this master's thesis, we rigorously develop two frameworks of relational composition of systems using tools from category theory. The first framework addresses port-Hamiltonian systems, which are dynamical systems whose dynamics are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Owen Lynch

Generalised contact structures are studied from the point of view of reduced generalised complex structures, naturally incorporating non-coorientable structures as non-trivial fibering. The infinitesimal symmetries are described in detail,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kyle Wright

We discuss in general how to geometrically visualize a qudit system, with a particular interest in thermal states. The principle of maximum entropy is used to study the geometric properties of an ensemble of finite dimensional Hamiltonian…

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In this paper, we extend the well-known Noether theorem for Lagrangian systems to contact Lagrangian systems. We introduce a classification of infinitesimal symmetries and obtain the corresponding dissipated quantities. We notice that in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Manuel de León , Manuel Lainz Valcázar

We introduce geometric quantization in the setting of shifted symplectic structures. We define Lagrangian fibrations and prequantizations of shifted symplectic stacks and their geometric quantization. In addition, we study many examples…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Pavel Safronov

We state the intrinsic form of the Hamiltonian equations of first-order Classical Field theories in three equivalent geometrical ways: using multivector fields, jet fields and connections. Thus, these equations are given in a form similar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 A. Echeverría-Enríquez , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Román-Roy

This paper develops new links between contact geometry, magnetic dynamics, and symmetry in exact magnetic systems. First, we establish an interpolation property for Killing magnetic systems on contact manifolds under an additional…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Lina Deschamps , Levin Maier , Tom Stalljohann

Using a Hamiltonian formulation of the spherically symmetric gravity-scalar field theory adapted to flat spatial slicing, we give a construction of the reduced Hamiltonian operator. This Hamiltonian, together with the null expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Viqar Husain , Oliver Winkler

Motivated by research on contraction analysis and incremental stability/stabilizability the study of 'differential properties' has attracted increasing attention lately. Previously lifts of functions and vector fields to the tangent bundle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Arjan van der Schaft

Jacobi structures are known to generalize Poisson structures, encompassing symplectic, cosymplectic, and Lie-Poisson manifolds. Notably, other intriguing geometric structures -- such as contact and locally conformal symplectic manifolds --…

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We propose a suitable formulation of the Hamiltonian formalism for Field Theory in terms of Hamiltonian connections and multisymplectic forms where a composite fibered bundle, involving a line bundle, plays the role of an extended…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 M. Palese , E. Winterroth

A new continuous contact force model for contacting problems with regular or irregular contacting surfaces and energy dissipations in multibody systems is presented and discussed in this work. The model is developed according to Hertz law…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-07 Jie Zhang , Wenhao Li , Lei Zhao , Guangping He

Motivated by the desire of finding a geometric interpretation to the Yamabe equation on groups of Heisenberg type, we define a geometric structure on manifolds modelled locally on these groups, which we call contact structure of Heisenberg…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Claudio Afeltra

The Hamiltonian operator describing a quantum particle on a path often extends holomorphically to a complex neighborhood of the path. When it does, it can be seen as the local expression of a complex projective structure, and its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Aaron Fenyes