A geometric analysis of dynamical systems with singular Lagrangians
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 1251.37052
author: Monika Havelková
publication date: 2012-08-06T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/247025
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37J05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70G45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70H03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70H45
zbMATH DE Number: 6063636
zbMATH Keywords: singular Lagrangian
zbMATH Keywords: Dirac's constraint theory
zbMATH Keywords: Hamiltonian external differential systems
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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title: A geometric analysis of dynamical systems with singular Lagrangians
published in: Communications in Mathematics
review text: The author investigates a singular mechanical system given by the Lagrangian NEWLINE\[NEWLINEL= \dot q_1\dot q_3- q_2\dot q_3+ q_1 q_3.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE This system has been studied previously using the constraint method of Dirac, but the results were incomplete and conclusions from different authors were not in agreement. The author rectifies this situation by providing a rigorous solution using the Hamiltonian exterior differential systems method. Given the Lagrangian, one obtains the corresponding dynamical distribution in the first jet bundle. She shows that this distribution is not completely integrable and has a non-constant rank. To obtain the dynamics a general integration method (developed by O. Krupková) called the ``geometric constraint algorithm'' is applied.NEWLINENEWLINE The author calculates the Euler-Lagrange and Hamiltonian equations in terms of the corresponding distributions and finds the complete structure of the solutions. It is worth noting that the Hamiltonian and Euler-Lagrange equations are not equivalent and that the dynamics are not representable by a vector field.
reviewed by: William J. Satzer Jr.
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6063636