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Variational principle for contact Tonelli Hamiltonian systems

Dynamical Systems 2015-05-13 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We establish an implicit variational principle for the equations of the contact flow generated by the Hamiltonian H(x,u,p)H(x,u,p) with respect to the contact 1-form α=dupdx\alpha=du-pdx under Tonelli and Osgood growth assumptions. It is the first step to generalize Mather's global variational method from the Hamiltonian dynamics to the contact Hamiltonian dynamics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1505.02918,
  title  = {Variational principle for contact Tonelli Hamiltonian systems},
  author = {Lin Wang and Jun Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02918},
  year   = {2015}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1408.3791

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