The Reduced Euler-Lagrange Equations
The Reduced Euler-Lagrange Equations
复制标题
简化的欧拉-拉格朗日方程
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
1993
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
J. Scheurle
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
J. Marsden;J. Scheurle
Marsden and Scheurle [1993] studied Lagrangian reduction in the context
of momentum map constraints—here meaning the reduction of the standard
Euler-Lagrange system restricted to a level set of a momentum map. This
provides a Lagrangian parallel to the reduction of symplectic manifolds. The
present paper studies the Lagrangian parallel of Poisson reduction for Hamiltonian
systems. For the reduction of a Lagrangian system on a level set of
a conserved quantity, a key object is the Routhian, which is the Lagrangian
minus the mechanical connection paired with the fixed value of the momentum
map. For unconstrained systems, we use a velocity shifted Lagrangian, which
plays the role of the Routhian in the constrained theory. Hamilton’s variational
principle for the Euler-Lagrange equations breaks up into two sets of equations
that represent a set of Euler-Lagrange equations with gyroscopic forcing that
can be written in terms of the curvature of the connection for horizontal variations,
and into the Euler-Poincar´e equations for the vertical variations. This
new set of equations is what we call the reduced Euler-Lagrange equations, and
it includes the Euler-Poincare and the Hamel equations as special cases. We illustrate
this methodology for a rigid body with internal rotors and for a particle
moving in a magnetic field.