Published August 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

A unified framework for mechanics: Hamilton–Jacobi equation and applications

  • 1. Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Estrada Dona Castorina 110, 22460-320 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  • 2. Unidad Asociada ULL-CSIC Geometría Diferencial y Mecánica Geométrica, Departamento de Matemática Fundamental, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad de la Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain)
  • 3. Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM), Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid (Spain)

Description

In this paper, we construct Hamilton–Jacobi equations for a large variety of mechanical systems (nonholonomic systems subjected to linear or affine constraints, dissipative systems subjected to external forces, time-dependent mechanical systems etc). We recover all these, in principle, different cases, using a unified framework based on skew-symmetric algebroids with a distinguished 1-cocycle. Several examples illustrate the theory

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/23/8/006

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0951-7715/23/8/006;
PII
S0951-7715(10)45296-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nonlinearity (Print)
Journal Volume
23
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 1887-1918
ISSN
0951-7715

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45034579
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATIONS; LIMITING VALUES; MECHANICS; SYMMETRY; TIME DEPENDENCE
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS