Regularity properties of fiber derivatives associated with higher-order mechanical systems

The aim of this work is to study fiber derivatives associated to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions describing the dynamics of a higher-order autonomous dynamical system. More precisely, given a function in T*T(k-1)Q, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for such a function to describe the...

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Autores: Colombo, Leonardo, Prieto Martínez, Pedro Daniel|||0000-0001-8325-2462
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/104055
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/104055
https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4960822
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Classificació AMS::70 Mechanics of particles and systems::70H Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics
Classificació AMS::53 Differential geometry::53D Symplectic geometry, contact geometry
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica aplicada a les ciències
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Resumo:The aim of this work is to study fiber derivatives associated to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions describing the dynamics of a higher-order autonomous dynamical system. More precisely, given a function in T*T(k-1)Q, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for such a function to describe the dynamics of a kth-order autonomous dynamical system, thus being a kth-order Hamiltonian function. Then, we give a suitable definition of (hyper)regularity for these higher-order Hamiltonian functions in terms of their fiber derivative. In addition, we also study an alternative characterization of the dynamics in Lagrangian submanifolds in terms of the solutions of the higher-order Euler-Lagrange equations.