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We apply the Hamiltonian formalism to investigate the massless sector of scalar field theory coupled with Maxwell electrodynamics through the Pontryagin term. Specifically, we analyze asymptotic symmetries at the null infinity of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-20 Hernán A. González , Oriana Labrin , Olivera Miskovic

The mechanism of symmetry formation is discussed in the framework of multidimensional gravity. It is shown that this process is strictly connected to the entropy decrease of compact space. The existence of low energy symmetries is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-22 A. A. Kirillov , A. A. Korotkevich , S. G. Rubin

A universal algorithm to derive a macroscopic dynamics from the microscopic dynamical system via the averaging process and symplecto-contact reduction was introduced by Jin-wook Lim and the second-named author in [LO23]. They apply the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Hyun-Seok Do , Yong-Geun Oh

Lagrangian contact supersymmetries (depending on derivatives of arbitrary order) are treated in very general setting. The cohomology of the variational bicomplex on an arbitrary graded manifold and the iterated cohomology of a generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

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 aim of this paper is to study symmetries of linearly singular differential equations, namely, equations that can not be written in normal form because the derivatives are multiplied by a singular linear operator. The concept of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xavier Gracia , Josep M. Pons

The incorporation of appropriate inductive bias plays a critical role in learning dynamics from data. A growing body of work has been exploring ways to enforce energy conservation in the learned dynamics by encoding Lagrangian or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yaofeng Desmond Zhong , Biswadip Dey , Amit Chakraborty

This paper presents a systematic quantitative study of contact rigidity phenomena based on the contact Hamiltonian Floer theory established by Merry-Uljarevi\'c. Our quantitative approach applies to arbitrary admissible contact Hamiltonian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Danijel Djordjević , Igor Uljarević , Jun Zhang

The Noether symmetry of a generic $f(R)$ cosmological model is investigated by utilizing the behavior of the corresponding Lagrangian under the infinitesimal generators of the desired symmetry. We explicitly calculate the form of $f(R)$ for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Babak Vakili

This paper investigates scaling symmetry in thermodynamics by unifying constrained Hamiltonian dynamics with symplectic and contact geometries. Through the mathematical processes of contactization and symplectization, we demonstrate that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 M. C. Baldiotti , R. Fresneda

For contact manifolds, it is well-known that the map which assigns to an infinitesimal contact transformation its contact Hamiltonian function is a linear isomorphism, and an explicit local formula for its inverse can be given. In contrast,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Hoseob Seo

In this paper, we survey our recent results on the variational formulation of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for the finite dimensional case of discrete systems as well as for the infinite dimensional case of continuum systems. Starting with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

A didactic and systematic derivation of Noether point symmetries and conserved currents is put forward in special relativistic field theories, without a priori assumptions about the transformation laws. Given the Lagrangian density, the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-03-17 Fernando Haas

We develop a geometric formalism suited for describing the quantum thermodynamics of a certain class of nanoscale systems (whose density matrix is expressible in the McLennan--Zubarev form) at any arbitrary non-equilibrium steady state. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Aritra Ghosh , Malay Bandyopadhyay , Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati

We introduce a sub-symmetry of a differential system as an infinitesimal transformation of a subset of the system that leaves the subset invariant on the solution set of the entire system. We discuss the geometrical meaning and properties…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 V. Rosenhaus , Ravi Shankar

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. Variational integrators are an important class of geometric integrators. The general idea…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Colombo , Manuela Gamonal Fernández , David Martín de Diego

Lie point symmetries of the one-dimensional gas dynamics equations of a polytropic gas in Lagrangian coordinates are considered. Complete Lie group classification of these equations reduced to a scalar second-order PDE is performed. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Vladimir A. Dorodnitsyn , Roman Kozlov , Sergey V. Meleshko

In this paper we study symmetries, Newtonoid vector fields, conservation laws, Noether's Theorem and its converse, in the framework of the $k$-symplectic formalism, using the Fr\"olicher-Nijenhuis formalism on the space of $k^1$-velocities…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 Lucía Bua , Ioan Bucataru , Modesto Salgado

We examine the assumptions behind Noether's theorem connecting symmetries and conservation laws. To compare classical and quantum versions of this theorem, we take an algebraic approach. In both classical and quantum mechanics, observables…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 John C. Baez

A Hamilton-Jacobi theory for general dynamical systems, defined on fibered phase spaces, has been recently developed. In this paper we shall apply such a theory to contact Hamiltonian systems, as those appearing in thermodynamics and on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-19 S. Grillo , E. Padrón