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We develop a new geometric framework suitable for dealing with Hamiltonian field theories with dissipation. To this end we define the notions of $k$-contact structure and $k$-contact Hamiltonian system. This is a generalization of both the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

Contact Hamiltonian systems extend symplectic Hamiltonian mechanics to dissipative settings while retaining geometric structure. We develop a structure-preserving splitting framework for contact Hamiltonian systems on $J^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 George A Kevrekidis

We recall the question of geometric integrators in the context of Poisson geometry, and explain their construction. These Poisson integrators are tested in some mechanical examples. Their properties are illustrated numerically and they are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Oscar Cosserat , Camille Laurent-Gengoux , Vladimir Salnikov

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

Hamiltonian systems are differential equations which describe systems in classical mechanics, plasma physics, and sampling problems. They exhibit many structural properties, such as a lack of attractors and the presence of conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

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

Numerical methods that preserves geometric invariants of the system such as energy, momentum and symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. These include variational integrators as an important subclass of geometric integrators. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 L. Colombo , J. Giribet , D. Martín de Diego

An interesting family of geometric integrators for Lagrangian systems can be defined using discretizations of the Hamilton's principle of critical action. This family of geometric integrators is called variational integrators. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Leonardo Colombo , David Martín de Diego , Marcela Zuccalli

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

Geometric aspects play an important role in the construction and analysis of structure-preserving numerical methods for a wide variety of ordinary and partial differential equations. Here we review the development and theory of symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Ludwig Gauckler , Ernst Hairer , Christian Lubich

Integrable Hamiltonian systems on symplectic manifolds have been well-studied. However, an intrinsic property of these kind of systems is that they can only live on even dimensional manifolds. To introduce a similar notion of integrability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Senne Ignoul

Recently, continuous-time dynamical systems have proved useful in providing conceptual and quantitative insights into gradient-based optimization, widely used in modern machine learning and statistics. An important question that arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Guilherme França , Michael I. Jordan , René Vidal

We study the optimal design of numerical integrators for dissipative systems, for which there exists an underlying thermodynamic structure known as GENERIC (general equation for the nonequilibrium reversible-irreversible coupling). We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Xiaocheng Shang , Hans Christian Öttinger

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

In this paper, we continue the construction of variational integrators adapted to contact geometry started in \cite{VBS}, in particular, we introduce a discrete Herglotz Principle and the corresponding discrete Herglotz Equations for a…

Symplectic integration of autonomous Hamiltonian systems is a well-known field of study in geometric numerical integration, but for non-autonomous systems the situation is less clear, since symplectic structure requires an even number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Håkon Marthinsen , Brynjulf Owren

A variational formulation for non-equilibrium thermodynamics was developed by Gay-Balmaz and Yoshimura. In a recent article, the first two authors of the present paper introduced partially cosymplectic structures as a geometric framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jaime Bajo , Manuel de León , Asier López-Gordón

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

We implement and investigate the numerical properties of a new family of integrators connecting both variants of the symplectic Euler schemes, and including an alternative to the classical symplectic mid-point scheme, with some additional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Hugo Jiménez-Pérez , Jean-Pierre Vilotte , Barbara Romanowicz

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