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This paper formulates optimal control problems for rigid bodies in a geometric manner and it presents computational procedures based on this geometric formulation for numerically solving these optimal control problems. The dynamics of each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-05-07 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

We obtain new entropy rigidity results for $u$-Gibbs measures by showing that whenever a $u$-Gibbs measure of a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism admits an unstable Margulis family, the unstable Jacobian data of the system must to be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Vítor Gomes , Bruno Santiago

We prove microlocal estimates at the trapped set of asymptotically Kerr spacetimes: these are spacetimes whose metrics decay inverse polynomially in time to a stationary subextremal Kerr metric. This combines two independent results. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Peter Hintz

We consider Hamiltonian deformations of Gabor systems, where the window evolves according to the action of a Schr\"odinger propagator and the phase-space nodes evolve according to the corresponding Hamiltonian flow. We prove the stability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Maurice A. de Gosson , Karlheinz Gröchenig , José Luis Romero

We consider issues associated with the Lagrangian characterisation of flow structures arising in aperiodically time-dependent vector fields that are only known on a finite time interval. A major motivation for the consideration of this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-29 Michal Branicki , Stephen Wiggins

On a two-dimensional flat torus, the Laplacian eigenfunctions can be expressed explicitly in terms of sinusoidal functions. For a rectangular or square torus, it is known that every first eigenstate is orbitally stable up to translation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Guodong Wang

This study presents standard Cliffordian Kaehler analogue of Lagrangian mechanics. Also, the some geometric and physical results related to the standard Cliffordian Kaehler dynamical systems are given.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Mehmet Tekkoyun

We study stability of unidirectional flows for the linearized 2D $\alpha$-Euler equations on the torus. The unidirectional flows are steady states whose vorticity is given by Fourier modes corresponding to a vector $\mathbf p \in \mathbb…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Holger Dullin , Yuri Latushkin , Robert Marangell , Shibi Vasudevan , Joachim Worthington

The linear hydrodynamic stability of a model for confined quasi-two-dimensional granular gases is analyzed. The system exhibits homogeneous hydrodynamics, i.e. there are macroscopic evolution equations for homogeneous states. The stability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-12 J. Javier Brey , V. Buzón , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

We prove that higher-derivative and genuinely nonlocal Lagrangian systems can be Lyapunov-stable even when their Hamiltonians lack a lower bound. Explicit free and coupled Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillators, together with a genuine nonlocal model,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Carlos Heredia , Josep Llosa

We study the stable behaviour of discrete dynamical systems where the map is convex and monotone with respect to the standard positive cone. The notion of tangential stability for fixed points and periodic points is introduced, which is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Bas Lemmens

In this paper we establish the ergodicity of Langevin dynamics for simple two-particle system involving a Lennard-Jones type potential. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such result for a system operating under this type of…

A heavy top with a fixed point and a rigid body in an ideal fluid are important examples of Hamiltonian systems on a dual to the semidirect product Lie algebra $e(n)=so(n)\ltimes\mathbb R^n$. We give a Lagrangian derivation of the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 Yuri B. Suris

In this paper we explore the nonholonomic Lagrangian setting of mechanical systems in local coordinates on finite-dimensional configuration manifolds. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions by reducing the basic equations of motion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Fernando Jimenez , Juergen Scheurle

Transient stability is crucial to the reliable operation of power systems. Existing theories rely on the simplified electromechanical models, substituting the detailed electromagnetic dynamics of inductor and capacitor with their impedance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Xinyuan Jiang , Constantino M. Lagoa , Yan Li

Multivortex dynamics in Manton's Schroedinger--Chern--Simons variant of the Landau-Ginzburg model of thin superconductors is studied within a moduli space approximation. It is shown that the reduced flow on M_N, the N vortex moduli space,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. M. Romao , J. M. Speight

We investigate minimality and stability of periodic brake orbits in natural Lagrangian systems on smooth Riemannian manifolds. We prove that every non-constant periodic brake orbit is not a minimizer of the fixed-time action, for any…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Luca Asselle , Xijun Hu , Alessandro Portaluri , Li Wu

The aim of this paper is to introduce a class of Hamiltonian autonomous systems in dimension 4 which are completely integrable and their dynamics is described in all details. They have an equilibrium point which is stable for some rare…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Gaetano Zampieri

In neuroscience, optics and condensed matter there is ample physical evidence for multistable dynamical systems, that is, systems with a large number of attractors. The known mathematical mechanisms that lead to multiple attractors are…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Vilela Mendes

This paper develops an entropy-based stability and robustness framework for nonlinear hypergraph dynamics with conservation and flow balance. We consider generator-form systems on the simplex whose state-dependent transition rates capture…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Chencheng Zhang , Hao Yang , Bin Jiang , Shaoxuan Cui