Geometric discrete analogues of tangent bundles and constrained Lagrangian systems

Details Geometric discrete analogues of tangent bundles and constrained Lagrangian systems Geometric discrete analogues of tangent bundles and constrained Lagrangian systems

2008-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/0807.1511v2

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Discretizing variational principles, as opposed to discretizing differential equations, leads to discrete-time analogues of mechanics, and, systematically, to geometric numerical integrators. The phase space of such variational discretizations is often the set of configuration pairs, analogously corresponding to initial and terminal points of a tangent vectors. We develop alternative discrete analogues of tangent bundles, by extending tangent vectors to finite curve segments, one curve segment for each tangent vector. Towards flexible, high order numerical integrators, we use these discrete tangent bundles as phase spaces for discretizations of the variational principles of Lagrangian systems, up to the generality of nonholonomic mechanical systems with nonlinear constraints. We obtain a self-contained and transparent development, where regularity, equations of motion, symmetry and momentum, and structure preservation, all have natural expressions.

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