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  2. Hamiltonian mechanics - Wikipedia

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    However, the Hamiltonian still exists. In the case where the cometric is degenerate at every point q of the configuration space manifold Q, so that the rank of the cometric is less than the dimension of the manifold Q, one has a sub-Riemannian manifold. The Hamiltonian in this case is known as a sub-Riemannian Hamiltonian. Every such ...

  3. Symplectic integrator - Wikipedia

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    Symplectic integrators are designed for the numerical solution of Hamilton's equations, which read ˙ = and ˙ =, where denotes the position coordinates, the momentum coordinates, and is the Hamiltonian.

  4. Momentum map - Wikipedia

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    An -action on a symplectic manifold (,) is called Hamiltonian if it is symplectic and if there exists a momentum map. A momentum map is often also required to be G {\displaystyle G} -equivariant , where G {\displaystyle G} acts on g ∗ {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}^{*}} via the coadjoint action , and sometimes this requirement is included in ...

  5. Symplectomorphism - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, isometries in Riemannian geometry must preserve the Riemann curvature tensor, which is thus a local invariant of the Riemannian manifold. Moreover, every function H on a symplectic manifold defines a Hamiltonian vector field X H, which exponentiates to a one-parameter group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. It follows that the group ...

  6. Symplectic manifold - Wikipedia

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    Symplectic manifolds arise from classical mechanics; in particular, they are a generalization of the phase space of a closed system. [1] In the same way the Hamilton equations allow one to derive the time evolution of a system from a set of differential equations, the symplectic form should allow one to obtain a vector field describing the flow of the system from the differential of a ...

  7. Hamiltonian vector field - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and physics, a Hamiltonian vector field on a symplectic manifold is a vector field defined for any energy function or Hamiltonian. Named after the physicist and mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton , a Hamiltonian vector field is a geometric manifestation of Hamilton's equations in classical mechanics .

  8. Poisson bracket - Wikipedia

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    We have shown that every symplectic manifold is a Poisson manifold, that is a manifold with a "curly-bracket" operator on smooth functions such that the smooth functions form a Poisson algebra. However, not every Poisson manifold arises in this way, because Poisson manifolds allow for degeneracy which cannot arise in the symplectic case.

  9. Dynamic substructuring - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic Substructuring (DS) is an engineering tool used to model and analyse the dynamics of mechanical systems by means of its components or substructures. Using the dynamic substructuring approach one is able to analyse the dynamic behaviour of substructures separately and to later on calculate the assembled dynamics using coupling procedures.