scholarly journals Structural aspects of Hamilton–Jacobi theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Cariñena ◽  
X. Gràcia ◽  
G. Marmo ◽  
E. Martínez ◽  
M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda ◽  
...  

In our previous papers [J. F. Cariñena, X. Gràcia, G. Marmo, E. Martínez, M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda and N. Román-Roy, Geometric Hamilton–Jacobi theory, Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phys. 3 (2006) 1417–1458; Geometric Hamilton–Jacobi theory for nonholonomic dynamical systems, Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phys. 7 (2010) 431–454] we showed that the Hamilton–Jacobi problem can be regarded as a way to describe a given dynamics on a phase space manifold in terms of a family of dynamics on a lower-dimensional manifold. We also showed how constants of the motion help to solve the Hamilton–Jacobi equation. Here we want to delve into this interpretation by considering the most general case: a dynamical system on a manifold that is described in terms of a family of dynamics (slicing vector fields) on lower-dimensional manifolds. We identify the relevant geometric structures that lead from this decomposition of the dynamics to the classical Hamilton–Jacobi theory, by considering special cases like fibered manifolds and Hamiltonian dynamics, in the symplectic framework and the Poisson one. We also show how a set of functions on a tangent bundle can determine a second-order dynamics for which they are constants of the motion.

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 1993
Author(s):  
Manuel de León ◽  
Manuel Lainz ◽  
Álvaro Muñiz-Brea

The aim of this paper is to develop a Hamilton–Jacobi theory for contact Hamiltonian systems. We find several forms for a suitable Hamilton–Jacobi equation accordingly to the Hamiltonian and the evolution vector fields for a given Hamiltonian function. We also analyze the corresponding formulation on the symplectification of the contact Hamiltonian system, and establish the relations between these two approaches. In the last section, some examples are discussed.


2009 ◽  
Vol 06 (05) ◽  
pp. 759-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. ABRAHAM ◽  
P. FERNÁNDEZ DE CÓRDOBA ◽  
JOSÉ M. ISIDRO ◽  
J. L. G. SANTANDER

We construct the classical mechanics associated with a conformally flat Riemannian metric on a compact, n-dimensional manifold without boundary. The corresponding gradient Ricci flow equation turns out to equal the time-dependent Hamilton–Jacobi equation of the mechanics so defined.


2018 ◽  
Vol 103 (117) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Graham Hall

We consider the sectional curvature function on a 4-dimensional manifold admitting a metric g of neutral signature, (+,+,?,?) together with a review of the situation for the other two signatures. The main results of the paper are: first, that if the sectional curvature function is not a constant function at any m ? M (actually a slightly weaker assumption is made), the conformal class of g is always uniquely determined and in almost all cases g is uniquely determined on M, second, a study of the special cases when this latter uniqueness does not hold, third, the construction of the possible metrics in this latter case, fourth, some remarks on sectional curvature preserving vector fields and finally the complete solution when (M, g) is Ricci flat.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-311
Author(s):  
Yu. Kurochkin ◽  
Dz. Shoukavy ◽  
I. Boyarina

The immobility of the center of mass in spaces of constant curvature is postulated based on its definition obtained in [1]. The system of two particles which interact through a potential depending only on the distance between particles on a three-dimensional sphere is considered. The Hamilton-Jacobi equation is formulated and its solutions and trajectory equations are found. It was established that the reduced mass of the system depends on the relative distance.


Author(s):  
Jennifer Coopersmith

Hamilton’s genius was to understand what were the true variables of mechanics (the “p − q,” conjugate coordinates, or canonical variables), and this led to Hamilton’s Mechanics which could obtain qualitative answers to a wider ranger of problems than Lagrangian Mechanics. It is explained how Hamilton’s canonical equations arise, why the Hamiltonian is the “central conception of all modern theory” (quote of Schrödinger’s), what the “p − q” variables are, and what phase space is. It is also explained how the famous conservation theorems arise (for energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum), and the connection with symmetry. The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation is derived using infinitesimal canonical transformations (ICTs), and predicts wavefronts of “common action” spreading out in (configuration) space. An analogy can be made with geometrical optics and Huygen’s Principle for the spreading out of light waves. It is shown how Hamilton’s Mechanics can lead into quantum mechanics.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 957
Author(s):  
Branislav Popović ◽  
Lenka Cepova ◽  
Robert Cep ◽  
Marko Janev ◽  
Lidija Krstanović

In this work, we deliver a novel measure of similarity between Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) by neighborhood preserving embedding (NPE) of the parameter space, that projects components of GMMs, which by our assumption lie close to lower dimensional manifold. By doing so, we obtain a transformation from the original high-dimensional parameter space, into a much lower-dimensional resulting parameter space. Therefore, resolving the distance between two GMMs is reduced to (taking the account of the corresponding weights) calculating the distance between sets of lower-dimensional Euclidean vectors. Much better trade-off between the recognition accuracy and the computational complexity is achieved in comparison to measures utilizing distances between Gaussian components evaluated in the original parameter space. The proposed measure is much more efficient in machine learning tasks that operate on large data sets, as in such tasks, the required number of overall Gaussian components is always large. Artificial, as well as real-world experiments are conducted, showing much better trade-off between recognition accuracy and computational complexity of the proposed measure, in comparison to all baseline measures of similarity between GMMs tested in this paper.


Author(s):  
Razvan Gabriel Iagar ◽  
Philippe Laurençot

A classification of the behaviour of the solutions f(·, a) to the ordinary differential equation (|f′|p-2f′)′ + f - |f′|p-1 = 0 in (0,∞) with initial condition f(0, a) = a and f′(0, a) = 0 is provided, according to the value of the parameter a > 0 when the exponent p takes values in (1, 2). There is a threshold value a* that separates different behaviours of f(·, a): if a > a*, then f(·, a) vanishes at least once in (0,∞) and takes negative values, while f(·, a) is positive in (0,∞) and decays algebraically to zero as r→∞ if a ∊ (0, a*). At the threshold value, f(·, a*) is also positive in (0,∞) but decays exponentially fast to zero as r→∞. The proof of these results relies on a transformation to a first-order ordinary differential equation and a monotonicity property with respect to a > 0. This classification is one step in the description of the dynamics near the extinction time of a diffusive Hamilton–Jacobi equation with critical gradient absorption and fast diffusion.


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