Dirac Structures and Hamilton-Jacobi Theory for Lagrangian Mechanics on Lie Algebroids

preprint2012arXivOpen access

Abstract

This paper develops the notion of implicit Lagrangian systems on Lie algebroids and a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for this type of system. The Lie algebroid framework provides a natural generalization of classical tangent bundle geometry. We define the notion of an implicit Lagrangian system on a Lie algebroid EE using Dirac structures on the Lie algebroid prolongation $\T^EE^*$. This setting includes degenerate Lagrangian systems with nonholonomic constraints on Lie algebroids.

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