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Routh reduction and Cartan mechanics

Mathematical Physics 2017-01-04 v2 math.MP

Abstract

In the present work a Cartan mechanics version for Routh reduction is considered, as an intermediate step toward Routh reduction in field theory. Motivation for this generalization comes from an scheme for integrable systems [12], used for understanding the occurrence of Toda field theories in so called Hamiltonian reduction of WZNW field theories [11]. As a way to accomplish with this intermediate aim, this article also contains a formulation of the Lagrangian Adler-Kostant-Symes systems discussed in [12] in terms of Routh reduction.

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@article{arxiv.1606.02630,
  title  = {Routh reduction and Cartan mechanics},
  author = {Santiago Capriotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02630},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

46 pages, comments are welcome. Version 2 contains an additional section concerning reduced equations of motion in quasicoordinates

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