The Geometry of Higher-Order Hamilton Spaces: Applications to Hamiltonian Mechanics

by R. Miron

Overview

This book is the first to present an overview of higher-order Hamilton geometry with applications to higher-order Hamiltonian mechanics. It is a direct continuation of the book The Geometry of Hamilton and Lagrange Spaces, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). It contains the general theory of higher order Hamilton spaces H^(k)n, k>=1, semisprays, the canonical nonlinear connection, the N-linear metrical connection and their structure equations, and the Riemannian almost contact metrical model of these spaces. In addition, the volume also describes new developments such as variational principles for higher order Hamiltonians; Hamilton-Jacobi equations; higher order energies and law of conservation; Noether symmetries; Hamilton subspaces of order k and their fundamental equations. The duality, via Legendre transformation, between Hamilton spaces of order k and Lagrange spaces of the same order is pointed out. Also, the geometry of Cartan spaces of order k =1 is investigated in detail. This theory is useful in the construction of geometrical models in theoretical physics, mechanics, dynamical systems, optimal control, biology, economy etc.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401039956
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/18/2012
Series:	Fundamental Theories of Physics , #132
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Pages:	247
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Geometry of the k-Tangent Bundle TkM.- 1.1 The Category of k-Accelerations Bundles.- 1.2 Liouville Vector Fields. k-Semisprays.- 1.3 Nonlinear Connections.- 1.4 The Dual Coefficients of a Nonlinear Connection.- 1.5 The Determination of a Nonlinear Connection.- 1.6 d-Tensor Fields. N-Linear Connections.- 1.7 Torsion and Curvature.- 2 Lagrange Spaces of Higher Order.- 2.1 Lagrangians of Order k.- 2.2 Variational Problem.- 2.3 Higher Order Energies.- 2.4 Jacobi-Ostrogradski Momenta.- 2.5 Higher Order Lagrange Spaces.- 2.6 Canonical Metrical N-Connections.- 2.7 Generalized Lagrange Spaces of Order k.- 3 Finsler Spaces of Order k.- 3.1 Spaces F(k)n.- 3.2 Cartan Nonlinear Connection in F(k)n.- 3.3 The Cartan Metrical N-Linear Connection.- 4 The Geometry of the Dual of k-Tangent Bundle.- 4.1 The Dual Bundle (T*k M,π*k, M).- 4.2 Vertical Distributions. Liouville Vector Fields.- 4.3 The Structures J and J*.- 4.4 Canonical Poisson Structures on T*kM.- 4.5 Homogeneity.- 5 The Variational Problem for the Hamiltonians of Order k.- 5.1 The Hamilton-Jacobi Equations.- 5.2 Zermelo Conditions.- 5.3 Higher Order Energies. Conservation of Energyεk—1(H).- 5.4 The Jacobi-Ostrogradski Momenta.- 5.5 Nöther Type Theorems.- 6 Dual Semispray. Nonlinear Connections.- 6.1 Dual Semispray.- 6.2 Nonlinear Connections.- 6.3 The Dual Coefficients of the Nonlinear Connection N.- 6.4 The Determination of the Nonlinear Connection by a Dual k-Semispray.- 6.5 Lie Brackets. Exterior Differential.- 6.6 The Almost Product Structure—. The Almost Contact Structure $$ \mathbb{F} $$.- 6.7 The Riemannian Structure G on T*kM.- 6.8 The Riemannian Almost Contact Structure $$(\mathop \mathbb{G}\limitssub \vee ,\mathop \mathbb{F}\limitssub \vee )$$.- 7 Linear Connections on the Manifold T*kM.- 7.1 The Algebraof Distinguished Tensor Fields.- 7.2 N-Linear Connections.- 7.3 The Torsion and Curvature of an N-Linear Connection.- 7.4 The Coefficients of a N-Linear Connection.- 7.5 The h-,��α- and ��k-Covariant Derivatives in Local Adapted Basis.- 7.6 Ricci Identities. Local Expressions of d-Tensor of Curvature and Torsion. Bianchi Identities.- 7.7 Parallelism of the Vector Fields on the Manifold T*kM.- 7.8 Structure Equations of a N-Linear Connection.- 8 Hamilton Spaces of Order k ≥ 1.- 8.1 The Spaces H(k)n.- 8.2 The k-Tangent Structure J and the Adjoint k-Tangent Structure J*.- 8.3 The Canonical Poisson Structure of the Hamilton Space H(k)n.- 8.4 Legendre Mapping Determined by a Lagrange Space L(k)n= (M, L).- 8.5 Legendre Mapping Determined by a Hamilton Space of Order k.- 8.6 The Canonical Nonlinear Connection of the Space H(k)n.- 8.7 Canonical Metrical N-Linear Connection of the Space H(k)n.- 8.8 The Hamilton Space H(k)n of Electrodynamics.- 8.9 The Riemannian Almost Contact Structure Determined by the Hamilton Space H(k)n.- 9 Subspaces in Hamilton Spaces of Order k.- 9.1 Submanifolds $${Tsub{*k}}\mathop M\limitssub \vee$$ in the Manifold T*kM.- 9.2 Hamilton Subspaces $${{\mathop H\limitssub \vee} sub{(k)m}}$$ in H(k)n. Darboux Frames.- 9.3 Induced Nonlinear Connection.- 9.4 The Relative Covariant Derivative.- 9.5 The Gauss-Weingarten Formula.- 9.6 The Gauss-Codazzi Equations.- 10 The Cartan Spaces of Order k as Dual of Finsler Spaces of Order k.- 10.1 C(k)n-Spaces.- 10.2 Geometrical Properties of the Cartan Spaces of Order k.- 10.3 Canonical Presymplectic Structures, Variational Problem of the Space C(kn).- 10.4 The Cartan Spaces C(k)n as Dual of Finsler Spaces F(k)n.- 10.5 Canonical Nonlinear Connection. N-Linear Connections.- 10.6 Parallelism of Vector Fields in Cartan SpaceC(kn).- 10.7 Structure Equations of Metrical Canonical N-Connection.- 10.8 Riemannian Almost Contact Structure of the Space C(kn).- 11 Generalized Hamilton and Cartan Spaces of Order k. Applications to Hamiltonian Relativistic Optics.- 11.1 The Space GH(kn).- 11.2 Metrical N-Linear Connections.- 11.3 Hamiltonian Relativistic Optics.- 11.4 The Metrical Almost Contact Structure of the Space GH(kn).- 11.5 Generalized Cartan Space of Order k.- References.

Editorial Reviews

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"The book is devoted to an extensive study of formal-geometric properties of higher-order nondegenerate one-dimensional variational integrals. … The author’s approach is useful for the construction of geometric models … . The book is precisely written, very clear, in principle self-contained and can be understood by non-specialists." (Jan Chrastina, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1044 (19), 2004)

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