Constants of motion associated with alternative Hamiltonians
Abstract
It is shown that if a non-autonomous system of $2n$ first-order ordinary differential equations is expressed in the form of the Hamilton equations in terms of two different sets of coordinates, $(q_{i}, p_{i})$ and $(Q_{i}, P_{i})$, then the determinant and the trace of any power of a certain matrix formed by the Poisson brackets of the $Q_{i}, P_{i}$ with respect to $q_{i}, p_{i}$, are constants of motion.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1408.4736
- Bibcode:
- 2014arXiv1408.4736T
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Classical Physics;
- Mathematical Physics