Contact geometric mechanics: the Tulczyjew triples

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Main Authors: Grabowska, Katarzyna, Grabowski, Janusz
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Published: 2022
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author Grabowska, Katarzyna
Grabowski, Janusz
author_facet Grabowska, Katarzyna
Grabowski, Janusz
contents We propose a generalization of the classical Tulczyjew triple as a geometric tool in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms which serves for contact manifolds. The rôle of the canonical symplectic structures on cotangent bundles in Tulczyjew's case is played by the canonical contact structures on the bundles $J^1L$ of first jets of sections of line bundles $L\to M$. Contact Hamiltonians and contact Lagrangians are understood as sections of certain line bundles, and they determine (generally implicit) dynamics on the contact phase space $J^1L$. We also study a contact analog of the Legendre map and the Legendre transformation of generating objects in both contact formalisms. Several explicit examples are offered.
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spellingShingle Contact geometric mechanics: the Tulczyjew triples
Grabowska, Katarzyna
Grabowski, Janusz
Symplectic Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Differential Geometry
37J39, 70Hxx, 70S05, 53D35, 53D10, 53D35, 70G45
We propose a generalization of the classical Tulczyjew triple as a geometric tool in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms which serves for contact manifolds. The rôle of the canonical symplectic structures on cotangent bundles in Tulczyjew's case is played by the canonical contact structures on the bundles $J^1L$ of first jets of sections of line bundles $L\to M$. Contact Hamiltonians and contact Lagrangians are understood as sections of certain line bundles, and they determine (generally implicit) dynamics on the contact phase space $J^1L$. We also study a contact analog of the Legendre map and the Legendre transformation of generating objects in both contact formalisms. Several explicit examples are offered.
title Contact geometric mechanics: the Tulczyjew triples
topic Symplectic Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Differential Geometry
37J39, 70Hxx, 70S05, 53D35, 53D10, 53D35, 70G45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03154