Eigenvalues of Killing tensors and separable webs on Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.
Erratum for "Non singular Hamiltonian systems and geodesic flows on surfaces with negative curvature".
A mistake was found in the reasoning leading to a Lagrangian which we considered as equivalent from the formula for the action S(γ) below the classical mechanical problem (3) on "Non singular Hamiltonian systems and geodesic flows on surfaces with negative curvature", page 271.
Fields associated with autonomous dynamical systems. (Champs associés aux systèmes dynamiques autonomes.)
Formulation of analytical mechanics in general relativity
Generalized Birkhoffian realization of nonholonomic systems
Based on the Cauchy-Kowalevski theorem for a system of partial differential equations to be integrable, a kind of generalized Birkhoffian systems (GBSs) with local, analytic properties are put forward, whose manifold admits a presymplectic structure described by a closed 2-form which is equivalent to the self-adjointness of the GBSs. Their relations with Birkhoffian systems, generalized Hamiltonian systems are investigated in detail. Analytic, algebraic and geometric properties of GBSs are formulated,...
Generalized polarized manifolds.
Geometric mechanics on nonholonomic submanifolds
In this survey article, nonholonomic mechanics is presented as a part of geometric mechanics. We follow a geometric setting where the constraint manifold is a submanifold in a jet bundle, and a nonholonomic system is modelled as an exterior differential system on the constraint manifold. The approach admits to apply coordinate independent methods, and is not limited to Lagrangian systems under linear constraints. The new methods apply to general (possibly nonconservative) mechanical systems subject...
Géométrie des équations différentielles du second ordre
Geometry of invariant tori of certain integrable systems with symmetry and an application to a nonholonomic system.
Hidden symmetries of the gravitational contact structure of the classical phase space of general relativistic test particle
The phase space of general relativistic test particle is defined as the 1-jet space of motions. A Lorentzian metric defines the canonical contact structure on the odd-dimensional phase space. In the paper we study infinitesimal symmetries of the gravitational contact phase structure which are not generated by spacetime infinitesimal symmetries, i.e. they are hidden symmetries. We prove that Killing multivector fields admit hidden symmetries of the gravitational contact phase structure and we give...
Hierarchy of integrable geodesic flows.
A family of integrable geodesic flows is obtained. Any such a family corresponds to a pair of geodesically equivalent metrics.
Isomorphism and Hamilton representation of some nonholonomic systems.
Jet bundle geometry, dynamical connections, and the inverse problem of lagrangian mechanics
Killing's equations in dimension two and systems of finite type
A PDE system is said to be of finite type if all possible derivatives at some order can be solved for in terms lower order derivatives. An algorithm for determining whether a system of finite type has solutions is outlined. The results are then applied to the problem of characterizing symmetric linear connections in two dimensions that possess homogeneous linear and quadratic integrals of motions, that is, solving Killing's equations of degree one and two.
La structure symplectique de la mécanique décrite par Lagrange en 1811
Lagrangian and hamiltonian aspects of Josephson type media
Mechanical Lagrangian systems with external forces.
Non singular Hamiltonian systems and geodesic flows on surfaces with negative curvature.
We extend here results for escapes in any given direction of the configuration space of a mechanical system with a non singular bounded at infinity homogeneus potential of degree -1, when the energy is positive. We use geometrical methods for analyzing the parallel and asymptotic escapes of this type of systems. By using Riemannian geometry methods we prove under suitable conditions on the potential that all the orbits escaping in a given direction are asymptotically parallel among themselves. We...
Noncommutative Lagrange mechanics.
Non-decomposable Nambu brackets
It is well-known that the Fundamental Identity (FI) implies that Nambu brackets are decomposable, i.e. given by a determinantal formula. We find a weaker alternative to the FI that allows for non-decomposable Nambu brackets, but still yields a Darboux-like Theorem via a Nambu-type generalization of Weinstein’s splitting principle for Poisson manifolds.