A historical review on nonholomic mechanics

M De Leon - Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas …, 2012 - Springer
The aim of this paper is to present a short historical/scientific review on nonholonomic
mechanics, with special emphasis on the latest developments. Indeed, the use of differential …

De Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian formulation and precanonical quantization of vielbein gravity

IV Kanatchikov - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The De Donder-Weyl (DW) covariant Hamiltonian formulation of the Palatini first-
order Lagrangian of vielbein (tetrad) gravity and its precanonical quantization are presented …

On a generalization of the Dirac bracket in the De Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian formalism

I Kanatchikov - Differential Geometry and its Applications, 2008 - World Scientific
The elements of the constrained dynamics algorithm in the De Donder-Weyl (DW)
Hamiltonian theory for degenerate Lagrangian theories are discussed. A generalization of …

[HTML][HTML] Euler–Poincaré reduction in principal fibre bundles and the problem of Lagrange

M Castrillón, PL García, C Rodrigo - Differential Geometry and its …, 2007 - Elsevier
We compare Euler–Poincaré reduction in principal fibre bundles, as a constrained
variational problem on the connections of this fibre bundle and constraint defined by the …

[PDF][PDF] Geometric methods in classical field theory and continuous media

CM Campos - 2010 - core.ac.uk
Este trabajo recopila la investigación desarrollada y los resultados obtenidos durante mis
cuatro años como becario predoctoral en el Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (y …

A class of nonholonomic kinematic constraints in elasticity

J Vankerschaver - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a first example of a simple classical field theory with nonholonomic constraints.
Our model is a straightforward modification of a Cosserat rod. Based on a mechanical …

Chetaev versus vakonomic prescriptions in constrained field theories with parametrized variational calculus

E Bibbona, L Fatibene, M Francaviglia - Journal of mathematical …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Starting from a characterization of admissible Chetaev and vakonomic variations in a field
theory with constraints we show how the so called parametrized variational calculus can …

Invariants associated to a variational problem

JP Álvarez, JC Sánchez - … Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern …, 2023 - World Scientific
Invariants associated to a variational problem Page 1 International Journal of Geometric
Methods in Modern Physics Vol. 20, No. 7 (2023) 2350111 (17 pages) c© World Scientific …

[HTML][HTML] First variation formula and conservation laws in several independent discrete variables

AC Casimiro, C Rodrigo - Journal of Geometry and Physics, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper sets the scene for discrete variational problems on an abstract cellular complex
that serves as discrete model of Rp and for the discrete theory of partial differential operators …

Variational integrators in discrete vakonomic mechanics

PL García, A Fernández, C Rodrigo - Revista de la Real Academia de …, 2012 - Springer
We introduce the discrete counterpart of the vakonomic method in Lagrangian mechanics
with non-holonomic constraints. After defining the concepts of “admissible section” and …