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This paper studies nonsmooth variational problems on principal bundles for nonholonomic systems with collisions taking place in the boundary of the manifold configuration space of the nonholonopmic system. In particular, we first extended…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Leonardo J. Colombo

We study inverse boundary problems for semilinear Schr\"odinger equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $\ge 2$ with smooth boundary, at a large fixed frequency. We show that certain classes of cubic nonlinearities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Katya Krupchyk , Shiqi Ma , Suman Kumar Sahoo , Mikko Salo , Simon St-Amant

Optimization on Hadamard manifolds -- the natural Riemannian setting for globally geodesically convex problems -- relies on exponential maps to retract tangent vectors and parallel transport to connect tangent spaces across the manifold.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Mateo Díaz , Benjamin Grimmer , Ian McPherson

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

The differential equations with piecewise constant argument (DEPCAs, for short) is a class of hybrid dynamical systems (combining continuous and discrete). In this paper, under the assumption that the nonlinear term is partially unbounded,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Changwu Zou , Yong-Hui Xia , Manuel Pinto , Jinlin Shi , Yuzhen Bai

Variational principles play a central role in classical mechanics, providing compact formulations of dynamics and direct access to conserved quantities. While holonomic systems admit well-known action formulations, non-holonomic systems --…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 A. Rothkopf , W. A. Horowitz

It is shown that the horizontal holonomy group of a K-contact sub-Riemannian manifold either coincides with the holonomy group of a Riemannian manifold, or it is a codimension-one normal subgroup of the later group. The question of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Anton S. Galaev

The purpose of this paper is to study properties of continua (closed connected sets) of nontrivial solutions of non-cooperative elliptic systems considered on geodesic balls in $S^n$. In particular, we have shown that if the geodesic ball…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Sławomir Rybicki , Naoki Shioji , Piotr Stefaniak

We consider parabolic equations with mixed boundary conditions and domain inhomogeneities supported on a lower dimensional hypersurface, enforcing a jump in the conormal derivative. Only minimal regularity assumptions on the domain and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-05 A. F. M. ter Elst , Martin Meyries , Joachim Rehberg

We identify quantum geometric bounds for observables in non-Hermitian systems. We find unique bounds on non-Hermitian quantum geometric tensors, generalized two-point response correlators, conductivity tensors, and optical weights. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Milosz Matraszek , Wojciech J. Jankowski , Jan Behrends

The general purpose bitensorially gauge-covariant differentiation procedure set up in the preceding article is specialised to the particular case of bundles with nonlinear fibres that are endowed with a torsion free Riemannian or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-05 Brandon Carter

It is shown that any second order dynamic equation on a configuration bundle $Q\to R$ of non-relativistic mechanics is equivalent to a geodesic equation with respect to a (non-linear) connection on the tangent bundle $TQ\to Q$. The case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

In this work we construct a variety of new complex-valued proper biharmonic maps and (2,1)-harmonic morphisms on Riemannian manifolds with non-trivial geometry. These are solutions to a non-linear system of partial differential equations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Elsa Ghandour , Sigmundur Gudmundsson

The developments in this paper are concerned with nonholonomic field theories in the presence of symmetries. Having previously treated the case of vertical symmetries, we now deal with the case where the symmetry action can also have a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Vankerschaver , D. Martin de Diego

We obtain some results on symmetries of sub-Riemannian surfaces. In case of contact sub-Riemannian surface we base on invariants found by Hughen \cite{Hughen}. Using these invariants, we find conditions under which a sub-Riemannian surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Mikhail Armenovich Malakhaltsev , José Ricardo Arteaga

The constraint reaction force of ideal nonholonomic constraints in time-dependent mechanics on a configuration bundle $Q\to R$ is obtained. Using the vertical extension of Hamiltonian formalism to the vertical tangent bundle $VQ$ of $Q\to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

By combining the generalized exterior algebra of forms over a noncommutative algebra with the gauging of discrete directions and the associated Higgs fields, we consider the construction of the bosonic sector of left-right symmetric models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 B. E. Hanlon , G. C. Joshi

We describe a diagrammatic technique for non-Hermitian fermionic systems that is applicable in the steady state, and which allows addressing correlations effects by systematic expansion. Applying this method to exceptional points or rings,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Johan Carlström

Following Part~I, we consider a class of reversible systems and study bifurcations of homoclinic orbits to hyperbolic saddle equilibria. Here we concentrate on the case in which homoclinic orbits are symmetric, so that only one control…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Kazuyuki Yagasaki

In this paper, we present a collection of infinite-dimensional systems with nonholonomic constraints. In finite dimensions the two essentially different types of dynamics, nonholonomic or vakonomic ones, are known to be obtained by taking…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Alexander G. Abanov , Boris Khesin