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We present several results on the inverse problem and equivalent contactLagrangian systems. These problems naturally lead to consider smooth transformations on the z variable (i.e., reparametrizations of the action). We present the extended…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset , Manuel Lainz Valcázar

The dissipative Hofstadter model describes the quantum mechanics of a charged particle in two dimensions subject to a periodic potential, uniform magnetic field, and dissipative force. Its phase diagram exhibits an SL(2,Z) duality symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Denise E. Freed

We give the parallelism between locally conformal symplectic manifolds and contact manifolds. We also give the generalization of exact contact manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-21 Eugène Okassa

Contact has been well established as an important quantity to govern dilute quantum systems, in which the pairwise correlation at short distance traces a broad range of thermodynamic properties. So far, studies have been focusing on contact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-14 Shao-Liang Zhang , Mingyuan He , Qi Zhou

The constrained structure of the duality invariant form of Maxwell theory is considered in the Hamiltonian formulation of Dirac as well as from the symplectic viewpoint. Compared to the former the latter approach is found to be more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Banerjee

Nonholonomic mechanical systems have been attracting more interest in recent years because of their rich geometric properties and their applications in Engineering. In all generality, we discuss the reduction of a Hamilton-Jacobi theory for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Oğul Esen , Manuel de León , Víctor Manuel Jiménez Morales , Cristina Sardón

The Hamiltonian formalism is extremely elegant and convenient to mechanics problems. However, its application to the classical field theories is a difficult task. In fact, you can set one to one correspondence between the Lagrangian and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 D. S. Kulyabov , A. V. Korolkova , L. A. Sevastyanov

We compute symplectic cohomology for Milnor fibres of certain compound Du Val singularities that admit small resolution by using homological mirror symmetry. Our computations suggest a new conjecture that the existence of a small resolution…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Jonathan David Evans , Yanki Lekili

Several dynamical systems of interest in celestial mechanics can be written in the form of a Newton equation with time-dependent damping, linear in the velocities. For instance, the modified Kepler problem, the spin-orbit model and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Alessandro Bravetti , Marcello Seri , Mats Vermeeren , Federico Zadra

Many of the existing results for closed Hamiltonian G-manifolds are based on the analysis of the corresponding Hamiltonian functions using Morse-Bott techniques. In general such methods fail for non-compact manifolds or for manifolds with…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Aleksandra Marinković , Klaus Niederkrüger-Eid

In this expository note, we give a self-contained introduction to some modern incarnations of Hamiltonian reduction. Particular emphasis is placed on applications to symplectic geometry and geometric representation theory. We thereby…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Peter Crooks , Xiang Gao , Mitchell Pound , Casen Thompson

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

This paper develops the theory of abelian Routh reduction for discrete mechanical systems and applies it to the variational integration of mechanical systems with abelian symmetry. The reduction of variational Runge-Kutta discretizations is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sameer M. Jalnapurkar , Melvin Leok , Jerrold E. Marsden , Matthew West

In this paper we present an abstract nonsmooth optimization problem for which we recall existence and uniqueness results. We show a numerical scheme to approximate its solution. The theory is later applied to a sample static contact problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Anna Ochal , Michal Jureczka , Piotr Bartman

A universal algorithm to derive a macroscopic dynamics from the microscopic dynamical system via the averaging process and symplecto-contact reduction was introduced by Jin-wook Lim and the second-named author in [LO23]. They apply the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Hyun-Seok Do , Yong-Geun Oh

The relative equilibria of a symmetric Hamiltonian dynamical system are the critical points of the so-called augmented Hamiltonian. The underlying geometric structure of the system is used to decompose the critical point equations and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pascal Chossat , Debra Lewis , Juan-Pablo Ortega , Tudor S. Ratiu

Physical systems with symmetry arise abundantly in applications, and are endowed with interesting mathematical structures. The present paper focusses on linear reciprocal and input-output Hamiltonian systems. Their characterization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Arjan van der Schaft , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Tom Chaffey

For interacting classical field theories such as general relativity exact solutions typically can only be found by imposing physically motivated (Killing) {\it symmetry} assumptions. Such highly symmetric solutions are then often used as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Thomas Thiemann

Low-energy scattering is well described by the effective-range expansion. In quantum mechanics, a tower of contact interactions can generate terms in this expansion after renormalization. Scattering parameters are also encoded in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Daniel R. DeSena , Brian C. Tiburzi

In this article we develop a theory of contact systems with nonholonomic constraints. We obtain the dynamics from Herglotz's variational principle, by restricting the variations so that they satisfy the nonholonomic constraints. We prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Manuel de León , Víctor Manuel Jiménez , Manuel Lainz Valcázar