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In this survey, we review the classical Hamilton Jacobi theory from a geometric point of view in different geometric backgrounds. We propose a Hamilton Jacobi equation for different geometric structures attending to one particular…

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The Lagrangian relativistic direct interaction theory in the various forms of dynamics is formulated and its connections with the Fokker-type action theory and with the constrained Hamiltonian mechanics are established. The motion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. Duviryak , V. Shpytko , V. Tretyak

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

A close relationship between the classical Hamilton-Jacobi theory and the kinematic reduction of control systems by decoupling vector fields is shown in this paper. The geometric interpretation of this relationship relies on new…

The contact geometric structure of the thermodynamic phase space is used to introduce a novel symplectic structure on the tangent bundle of the equilibrium space. Moreover, it turns out that the equilibrium space can be interpreted as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Luis Aragon-Munoz , Hernando Quevedo

This paper is a continuation of our study of the dynamics of contact Hamiltonian systems in \cite{JY}, but without monotonicity assumption. Due to the complexity of general cases, we focus on the behavior of action minimizing orbits. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Liang Jin , Jun Yan , Kai Zhao

We determine the Hamiltonian vector field on an odd dimensional manifold endowed with almost cosymplectic structure. This is a generalization of the corresponding Hamiltonian vector field on manifolds with almost transitive contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Stefan Berceanu

We derive the dynamics of several rigid bodies of arbitrary shape in a 2-dimensional inviscid and incompressible fluid, whose vorticity field is given by point vortices. We adopt the idea of Vankerschaver et al. (2009) to derive the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-27 Steffen Weissmann

In this paper we propose a geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory on a Nambu--Jacobi manifold. The advantange of a geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory is that if a Hamiltonian vector field $X_H$ can be projected into a configuration manifold by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 M. de León , C. Sardón

The geometric framework for the Hamilton-Jacobi theory developed in previous works is extended for multisymplectic first-order classical field theories. The Hamilton-Jacobi problem is stated for the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian formalisms…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Manuel de León , Pedro Daniel Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy , Silvia Vilariño

Recently, a method to dynamically define a divergence function $D$ for a given statistical manifold $(\mathcal{M}\,,g\,,T)$ by means of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory associated with a suitable Lagrangian function $\mathfrak{L}$ on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Florio M. Ciaglia , Fabio Di Cosmo , Giuseppe Marmo

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

A description of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms naturally arisen from the invariance structure of given nonlinear dynamical systems on the infinite--dimensional functional manifold is presented. The basic ideas used to formulate the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yarema A. Prykarpatsky , Anatoliy M. Samoilenko

We develop a discrete analogue of Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the framework of discrete Hamiltonian mechanics. The resulting discrete Hamilton-Jacobi equation is discrete only in time. We describe a discrete analogue of Jacobi's solution and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Tomoki Ohsawa , Anthony M. Bloch , Melvin Leok

Recently, M. de Le\'on el al. ([9]) have developed a geometric Hamilton-Jacobi theory for Classical Field Theories in the setting of multisymplectic geometry. Our purpose in the current paper is to establish the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Cédirc M. Campos , Manuel de León , David Martín de Diego , Miguel Vaquero

For higher derivative theories, using the approach of Caratheodory's equivalent Lagrangian, we show that there exist novel formulations of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, which are different from the formulations derived from Hamilton's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-02 Zhi-Qiang Guo

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

In this paper we present a general framework that allows one to study discretization of certain dynamical systems. This generalizes earlier work on discretization of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems on tangent bundles and cotangent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent M. Guibout , Anthony M. Bloch

The geometric formulation of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory enables us to generalize it to systems of higher-order ordinary differential equations. In this work we introduce the unified Lagrangian-Hamiltonian formalism for the geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 Leonardo Colombo , Manuel de León , Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy

We present a new existence mechanism, based on symplectic topology, for orbits of Hamiltonian flows connecting a pair of disjoint subsets in the phase space. The method involves function theory on symplectic manifolds combined with rigidity…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Michael Entov , Leonid Polterovich