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We formulate quantum mechanics in spacetimes with real-order fractional geometry and more general factorizable measures. In spacetimes where coordinates and momenta span the whole real line, Heisenberg's principle is proven and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-18 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli , Marco Scalisi

We demonstrate the existence of a complex Hilbert Space with Hermitian operators for calculations in \textit{classical} electromagnetism that parallels the Hilbert Space of quantum mechanics. The axioms of this classical theory are the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Daniel W. Piasecki

Descriptions of classical mechanics in Hilbert space go back to the work of Koopman and von Neumann in the 1930s. Decades later, van Hove derived a unitary representation of the group of contact transformations which recently has been used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Marcel Reginatto , Andrés Darío Bermúdez Manjarres , Sebastian Ulbricht

Constructing a classical mechanical system associated with a given quantum mechanical one, entails construction of a classical phase space and a corresponding Hamiltonian function from the available quantum structures and a notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ghanashyam Date

We give a unitary irreducible representation of the proper Poincar\'e group that leads to an operational version of the classical relativistic dynamics of a massive spinless particle. Unlike quantum mechanics, in this operational theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 A. D. Bermúdez Manjarres

We propose a generalization of Heisenberg picture quantum mechanics in which a Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics is formulated directly for dynamical systems on a manifold with non--commuting coordinates, which act as operators on an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Stephen L. Adler

We discuss the principles to be used in the construction of discrete time classical and quantum mechanics as applied to point particle systems. In the classical theory this includes the concept of virtual path and the construction of system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 George Jaroszkiewicz , Keith Norton

We introduce a Hamiltonian framework for nonlocal Lagrangian systems without relying on infinite-derivative expansions. Starting from a (trajectory-based) variational principle and a generalized Noether theorem, we define the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Carlos Heredia , Josep Llosa

We study the relativistic formulation of a classical time-dependent nonholonomic Lagrangian mechanics from the perspective of moving frames. We also introduce time-dependent $G$-Chaplygin systems with affine constraints, which are natural…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Bozidar Jovanovic

The confusion and ambiguity encountered by students, in understanding virtual displacement and virtual work, is discussed in this article. A definition of virtual displacement is presented that allows one to express them explicitly for…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-11 Subhankar Ray , J. Shamanna

The constraint distribution in non-holonomic mechanics has a double role. On one hand, it is a kinematic constraint, that is, it is a restriction on the motion itself. On the other hand, it is also a restriction on the allowed variations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Hernan Cendra , Alberto Ibort , Manuel de Leon , David Martin de Diego

A mechanical covariant equation is introduced which retains all the effectingness of the Lagrange equation while being able to describe in a unified way other phenomena including friction, non-holonomic constraints and energy radiation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 E. Minguzzi

The aim of this study is to present an alternative way to deduce the equations of motion of general (i.e., also nonlinear) nonholonomic constrained systems starting from the d'Alembert principle and proceeding by an algebraic procedure. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Federico Talamucci

A system with anholonomic constraints where the trajectories of physical degrees of freedom are autoparallels on a manifold equipped with a general Cartan connection is discussed. A variational principle for the autoparallel trajectories is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei V. Shabanov

The usual canonical Hamiltonian or Lagrangian formalism of classical mechanics applied to macroscopic systems describes energy conserving adiabatic motion. If irreversible diabatic processes are to be included, then the law of increasing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Silverberg , A. Widom

In this paper we continue the study, started in [1], of the operatorial formulation of classical mechanics given by Koopman and von Neumann (KvN) in the Thirties. In particular we show that the introduction of the KvN Hilbert space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Gozzi , D. Mauro

The expansion of a classical Hamilton formalism consisting in adaptation of it to describe the nonequilibrium systems is offered. Expansion is obtained by construction of formalism on the basis of the dynamics equation of the equilibrium…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Somsikov

I consider the equations of motion which follow from d'Alembert's principle for a general mechanical system in a space of N dimensions, constrained by a non-holonomic constraint which is linear and homogeneous in the generalised velocities.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Christofer Cronstrom

We introduce a data-driven method for learning the equations of motion of mechanical systems directly from position measurements, without requiring access to velocity data. This is particularly relevant in system identification tasks where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Martine Dyring Hansen , Elena Celledoni , Benjamin Kwanen Tapley

We propose a first example of a simple classical field theory with nonholonomic constraints. Our model is a straightforward modification of a Cosserat rod. Based on a mechanical analogy, we argue that the constraint forces should be modeled…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joris Vankerschaver