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Submanifolds of a manifold are described as sections of a certain fiber bundle that enables one to consider their Lagrangian and (polysymplectic) Hamiltonian dynamics as that of a particular classical field theory. In particular, their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

One classical theory, as determined by an equation of motion or set of classical trajectories, can correspond to many unitarily {\em in}equivalent quantum theories upon canonical quantization. This arises from a remarkable ambiguity, not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian Redmount , Wai-Mo Suen , Kenneth Young

The paper suggests a Hamiltonian formulation for delay ordinary differential equations (DODEs). Such equations are related to DODEs with a Lagrangian formulation via a delay analog of the Legendre transformation. The Hamiltonian delay…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Vladimir Dorodnitsyn , Roman Kozlov , Sergey Meleshko

Most of the special functions of mathematical physics are connected with the representation of Lie groups. The action of elements $D$ of the associated Lie algebras as linear differential operators gives relations among the functions in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Loyal Durand

In this paper a class of classical Hamiltonian systems is geometrically formulated. This class is such that a Hamiltonian can be written as the sum of a kinetic energy function and a potential energy function. In addition, these energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Shin-itiro Goto , Tatsuaki Wada

Learning and predicting the dynamics of physical systems requires a profound understanding of the underlying physical laws. Recent works on learning physical laws involve generalizing the equation discovery frameworks to the discovery of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Tapas Tripura , Souvik Chakraborty

Fractional classical mechanics has been introduced and developed as a classical counterpart of the fractional quantum mechanics. Lagrange, Hamilton and Hamilton-Jacobi frameworks have been implemented for the fractional classical mechanics.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Nick Laskin

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

In order to derive a large set of Hamiltonian dynamical systems, but with only first order Lagrangian, we resort to the formulation in terms of Lagrange-Souriau 2-form formalism. A wide class of systems derived in different phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Luigi Martina

In this paper, the theory of smooth action-dependent Lagrangian mechanics (also known as contact Lagrangians) is extended to a non-smooth context appropriate for collision problems. In particular, we develop a Herglotz variational principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Asier López-Gordón , Leonardo Colombo , Manuel de León

Hamilton's principle of stationary action lies at the foundation of theoretical physics and is applied in many other disciplines from pure mathematics to economics. Despite its utility, Hamilton's principle has a subtle pitfall that often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chad R. Galley

New geometric structures that relate the lagrangian and hamiltonian formalisms defined upon a singular lagrangian are presented. Several vector fields are constructed in velocity space that give new and precise answers to several topics…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xavier Gracia , Josep M. Pons

We consider the canonical ensemble of $N$ particles admitting a strange Hamiltonian description. Each of the particles obeys a set of Newtonian equation of motion, which can also be described by the standard canonical Hamiltonian mechanics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-11 Liu Zhao

Examples of the construction of Hamiltonian structures for dynamical systems in field theory (including one reputedly non-Hamiltonian problem) without using Lagrangians, are presented. The recently developed method used requires the…

solv-int · Physics 2008-11-26 Andres Gomberoff , Sergio A. Hojman

An extension of the Legendre transform to non-convex functions with vanishing Hessian as a mix of envelope and general solutions of the Clairaut equation is proposed. Applying this to systems with constraints, the procedure of finding a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-11 Steven Duplij

The classical Hamilton equations of motion yield a structure sufficiently general to handle an almost arbitrary set of ordinary differential equations. Employing elementary algebraic methods, it is possible within the Hamiltonian structure…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-07-30 B. Aycock , A. Roe , J. L. Silverberg , A. Widom

Associated Legendre functions of fractional degree appear in the solution of boundary value problems in wedges or in toroidal geometries, and elsewhere in applied mathematics. In the classical case when the degree is half an odd integer,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Robert S. Maier

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 discuss the dynamics of a particular two-dimensional (2D) physical system in the four dimensional (4D) (non-)commutative phase space by exploiting the consistent Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms based on the symplectic structures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Malik

Lagrangian formalism is established for differential equations with special functions of mathematical physics as solutions. Formalism is based on either standard or non-standard Lagrangians. This work shows that the procedure of deriving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Zdzislaw Musielak , Niyousha Davachi , Marialis Rosario-Franco