Discrete Dirac reduction of implicit Lagrangian systems with abelian symmetry groups

This paper develops the theory of discrete Dirac reduction of discrete Lagrange-Dirac systems with an abelian symmetry group acting on the configuration space. We begin with the linear theory and, then, we extend it to the nonlinear setting using retraction compatible charts. We consider the reducti...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Abella, Álvaro Rodríguez, Leok, Melvin
Format: article
Status:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/349433
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/349433
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85150037121
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Discrete mechanical systems
Geometric numerical integration
Lagrange-Poincaré-Dirac equations
Reduction by symmetries
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Summary:This paper develops the theory of discrete Dirac reduction of discrete Lagrange-Dirac systems with an abelian symmetry group acting on the configuration space. We begin with the linear theory and, then, we extend it to the nonlinear setting using retraction compatible charts. We consider the reduction of both the discrete Dirac structure and the discrete Lagrange-Pontryagin principle, and show that they both lead to the same discrete Lagrange-Poincaré-Dirac equations. The coordinatization of the discrete reduced spaces relies on the notion of discrete connections on principal bundles. At last, we demonstrate the method obtained by applying it to a charged particle in a magnetic field, and to the double spherical pendulum.