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The intention of this article is to illustrate the use of methods from symplectic geometry for practical purposes. Our intended audience is scientists interested in orbits of Hamiltonian systems (e.g. the three-body problem). The main…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Urs Frauenfelder , Dayung Koh , Agustin Moreno

We consider generalizations of symplectic manifolds called n-plectic manifolds. A manifold is n-plectic if it is equipped with a closed, nondegenerate form of degree n+1. We show that higher structures arise on these manifolds which can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 Christopher L. Rogers

Let $G$ be a Lie group with a biinvariant metric, not necessarily positive definite. It is shown that a certain construction carried out in an earlier paper for the fundamental group of a closed surface may be extended to an arbitrary…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Johannes Huebschmann

The main problem is to understand and to find periodic symmetric orbits in the $n$-body problem, in the sense of finding methods to prove or compute their existence, and more importantly to describe their qualitative and quantitative…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-05-20 D. L. Ferrario

We describe a class of coadjoint orbits of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ by implementing symplectic reduction for the dual pair associated to the Hamiltonian description of ideal fluids. The…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-30 François Gay-Balmaz , Cornelia Vizman

We study here the behaviour of solutions for conjugated (antipodal) points in the $2$-body problem on the two-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{M}^2_R$. We use a slight modification of the classical potential used commonly in \cite{Borisov},…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Pedro P. Ortega Palencia , Guadalupe Reyes Victoria

We prove that any symplectic resolution of the closure of a nilpotent orbit in a semi-simple complex Lie algebra is isomorphic to the collapsing of the cotangent bundle of a projective homogenous variety. Then we give a complete…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Baohua Fu

We prove the existence of planar $D_n$--equivariant choreographies in the $n$--body problem with homogeneous potential of degree $-\alpha$, $0<\alpha<2$. Each body follows the same closed path, rotated and time-shifted, forming a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Juan Manuel Sánchez Cerritos

In this paper, we prove the existence of noncollision singularities in a planar four-body problem in a model different from [J. Xue,Acta Math.V224(2)253-388, 2020.]. In this model, the acceleration can be arbitrarily fast and the masses can…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Joseph Gerver , Guan Huang , Jinxin Xue

Using Cohen's classification of symplectic reflection groups, we prove that the parabolic subgroups, that is, stabilizer subgroups, of a finite symplectic reflection group are themselves symplectic reflection groups. This is the symplectic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Gwyn Bellamy , Johannes Schmitt , Ulrich Thiel

There is constructed a family of Lie algebras that act in a Hamiltonian way on the symplectic affine space of linear symplectic connections on a symplectic manifold. The associated equivariant moment map is a formal sum of the Cahen-Gutt…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Daniel J. F. Fox

An approach is developed to find approximate solutions to the classical Newtonian problem of N bodies. Sets of N gravitating bodies having spherically symmetric mass distributions, small angular velocities (< 1 rad/s) and bounded position…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 AbuBakr Mehmood , Syed Umer Abbas Shah , Ghulam Shabbir

There exist three main approaches to reduction associated to canonical Lie group actions on a symplectic manifold, namely, foliation reduction, introduced by Cartan, Marsden-Weinstein reduction, and optimal reduction, introduced by the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Juan-Pablo Ortega , Tudor S. Ratiu

We describe a reduction process for symplectic principal $\mathbb{R}$-bundles in the presence of a momentum map. This type of structures plays an important role in the geometric formulation of non-autonomous Hamiltonian systems. We apply…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Ignazio Lacirasella , Juan Carlos Marrero , Edith Padrón

Noticing that the space of the solutions of a first order Hamiltonian field theory has a pre-symplectic structure, we describe a class of conserved charges on it associated to the momentum map determined by any symmetry group of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Florio M. Ciaglia , Fabio Di Cosmo , Alberto Ibort , Giuseppe Marmo , Luca Schiavone , Alessandro Zampini

Newton's problem of the body of minimal aerodynamic resistance is traditionally stated in the class of {\it convex} axially symmetric bodies with fixed length and width. We state and solve the minimal resistance problem in the wider class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-04-28 Alexander Plakhov , Alena Aleksenko

In the $2$-dimensional $n$-body problem, $n\ge 3$, in spaces of constant curvature, $\kappa\ne 0$, we study polygonal homographic solutions. We first provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of these orbits and then…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Florin Diacu

We consider the problem of cotangent bundle reduction for non free group actions at zero momentum. We show that in this context the symplectic stratification obtained by Sjamaar and Lerman refines in two ways: (i) each symplectic stratum…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Matthew Perlmutter , Miguel Rodriguez-Olmos , M. Esmeralda Sousa-Dias

This paper analyzes the optimal control problem of cubic polynomials on compact Lie groups from a Hamiltonian point of view and its symmetries. The dynamics of the problem is described by a presymplectic formalism associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-27 L. Abrunheiro , M. Camarinha , J. Clemente-Gallardo

A polysymplectic structure is a vector-valued symplectic form, that is, a closed nondegenerate 2-form with values in a vector space. We first outline the polysymplectic Hamiltonian formalism with coefficients in a vector space $V$, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Casey Blacker