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The geometric framework for the Hamilton-Jacobi theory is used to study this theory in the ambient of higher-order mechanical systems, both in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms. Thus, we state the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 Leonardo Colombo , Manuel de León , Pedro Daniel Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy

In this paper, we propose a discrete Hamilton--Jacobi theory for (discrete) Hamiltonian dynamics defined on a (discrete) contact manifold. To this end, we first provide a novel geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory for continuous contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Oğul Esen , Cristina Sardón , Marcin Zajac

In this paper, we develop the theoretical foundations of discrete Dirac mechanics, that is, discrete mechanics of degenerate Lagrangian/Hamiltonian systems with constraints. We first construct discrete analogues of Tulczyjew's triple and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Melvin Leok , Tomoki Ohsawa

In order to describe the impact of different geometric structures and constraints for the dynamics of a Hamiltonian system, in this paper, for a magnetic Hamiltonian system defined by a magnetic symplectic form, we first drive precisely the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Hong Wang

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

A discrete theory for implicit nonholonomic Lagrangian systems undergoing elastic collisions is developed. It is based on the discrete Lagrange-d'Alembert-Pontryagin variational principle and the dynamical equations thus obtained are the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Leonardo Colombo

In this work we present a formal generalization of the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, recently developed for singular systems, to include the case of Lagrangians containing variables which are elements of Berezin algebra. We derive the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. M. Pimentel , R. G. Teixeira , J. L. Tomazelli

Variational integrators have traditionally been constructed from the perspective of Lagrangian mechanics, but there have been recent efforts to adopt discrete variational approaches to the symplectic discretization of Hamiltonian mechanics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Brian Tran , Melvin Leok

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…

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

In this paper, we study the integrability of contact Hamiltonian systems, both time-dependent and independent. In order to do so, we construct a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for these systems following two approaches, obtaining two different…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Manuel de León , Manuel Lainz , Asier López-Gordón , Xavier Rivas

A Lie-Hamilton system is a nonautonomous system of first-order ordinary differential equations describing the integral curves of a $t$-dependent vector field taking values in a finite-dimensional real Lie algebra of Hamiltonian vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 A. Blasco , F. J. Herranz , J. de Lucas , C. Sardon

In this Thesis we develop the geometric formulations for higher-order autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems, and second-order field theories. In all cases, the physical information of the system is given in terms of a Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez

In this paper, some of formulations of Hamilton-Jacobi equations for Hamiltonian system and regular reduced Hamiltonian systems are given. At first, an important lemma is proved, and it is a modification for the corresponding result of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Hong Wang

This paper develops the notion of implicit Lagrangian systems on Lie algebroids and a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for this type of system. The Lie algebroid framework provides a natural generalization of classical tangent bundle geometry. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 Melvin Leok , Diana Sosa

In these notes, we present an alternative version of discrete Dirac mechanics using Dirac structures. We first establish a notion of 'continuous Dirac system' and then propose a definition of discrete Dirac system, proving that it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Matías I. Caruso , Javier Fernández , Cora Tori , Marcela Zuccalli

In this paper structure-preserving time-integrators for rigid body-type mechanical systems are derived from a discrete Hamilton-Pontryagin variational principle. From this principle one can derive a novel class of variational partitioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-01-08 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Jerrold E. Marsden

We express discrete Painlev\'e equations as discrete Hamiltonian systems. The discrete Hamiltonian systems here mean the canonical transformations defined by generating functions. Our construction relies on the classification of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Takafumi Mase , Akane Nakamura , Hidetaka Sakai

In this paper, we present a generalization of a Hamilton--Jacobi theory to higher order implicit differential equations. We propose two different backgrounds to deal with higher order implicit Lagrangian theories: the Ostrogradsky approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 O. Esen , M. de León , C. Sardón

We extend the geometric Hamilton-Jacobi formalism for hamiltonian mechanics to higher order field theories with regular lagrangian density. We also investigate the dependence of the formalism on the lagrangian density in the class of those…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-01 L. Vitagliano