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The virial theorem, introduced by Clausius in statistical mechanics, and later applied in both classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, is studied by making use of symplectic formalism as an approach in the case of both the Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 José F. Cariñena , Fernando Falceto , Manuel F. Rañada

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

In this work we introduce contact Hamiltonian mechanics, an extension of symplectic Hamiltonian mechanics, and show that it is a natural candidate for a geometric description of non-dissipative and dissipative systems. For this purpose we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alessandro Bravetti , Hans Cruz , Diego Tapias

Motivated by a geometric decomposition of the vector field associated with the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) equation for finite-level open quantum systems, we propose a generalization of the recently introduced contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Florio M. Ciaglia , Hans Cruz , Giuseppe Marmo

The virial theorem for a system of interacting electrons in a crystal, which is described within the framework of the tight-binding model, is derived. We show that, in particular case of interacting massless electrons in graphene and other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-05 A. A. Sokolik , A. D. Zabolotskiy , Yu. E. Lozovik

In the recent years, with the incorporation of contact geometry, there has been a renewed interest in the study of dissipative or non-conservative systems in physics and other areas of applied mathematics. The equations arising when…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Jordi Gaset , Manuel Lainz , Arnau Mas , Xavier Rivas

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

The authors previous derivation of a variational principle from the total work functional, as a generalization of the first variation of an action functional, is extended by deriving a corresponding generalization of the Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 D. H. Delphenich

Certain dissipative physical systems closely resemble Hamiltonian systems in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$, but with the canonical equation for one of the variables in each conjugate pair rescaled by a real parameter. To generalise these dynamical…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-08 David S. Tourigny

In this paper, we consider a generalization of variational calculus which allows us to consider in the same framework different cases of mechanical systems, for instance, Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics, systems subjected to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Viviana Alejandra Díaz , David Martín de Diego

We present a complete theory of higher-order autonomous contact mechanics, which allows us to describe higher-order dynamical systems with dissipation. The essential tools for the theory are the extended higher-order tangent bundles, ${\rm…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset , Manuel Laínz , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Narciso Román-Roy

We provide new insights into the contact Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations of dissipative mechanical systems. In particular, we state a new form of the contact dynamical equations, and we review two recently presented Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

In the relativistic uniform model for continuous medium the integral theorem of generalized virial is derived, in which generalized momenta are used as particles momenta. This allows us to find exact formulas for the radial component of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Sergey G. Fedosin

Starting with the relativistic Boltzmann equation for a system of particles defined by a distribution function, we have derived the virial relation for a spherical structure within an expanding background in the context of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 Reza Javadinezhad , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Reza Mansouri

This paper introduces a new class of Lie systems that are Hamiltonian relative to a $k$-contact manifold. We show that a recent distributional approach to $k$-contact manifolds along with a related $k$-contact Hamiltonian vector field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Javier de Lucas , Xavier Rivas , Tomasz Sobczak

In this paper, the geometric approach to the virial theorem developed in \cite{CFR12} is written in terms of quasi-velocities (see \cite{CNCS07}). A generalization of the virial theorem for mechanical systems on Lie algebroids is also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 José F. Cariñena , Irina Gheorghiu , Eduardo Martínez , Patrícia Santos

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

We develop a unified geometric framework for dissipative mechanical systems based on uniform $q$-contact manifolds, which provide an extended phase space equipped with multiple contact $1$-forms. Within this setting, we construct both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Melvin Leok , Cristina Sardón , Xuefeng Zhao

This is the second of two companion papers. We describe a generalization of the point vortex system on surfaces to a Hamiltonian dynamical system consisting of two or three points on complex projective space CP^2 interacting via a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 James Montaldi , Amna Shaddad

Many important theories in modern physics can be stated using differential geometry. Symplectic geometry is the natural framework to deal with autonomous Hamiltonian mechanics. This admits several generalizations for nonautonomous systems,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Xavier Rivas Guijarro
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