Enrollment year
2021/2022
Academic discipline
MAT/07 (MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS "FELICE CASORATI"
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2022 - 10/06/2022)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Language
English in case of attendance of foreign students
Prerequisites
A course of Analytical Mechanics (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations). Basic knowledge of differential geometry would be helpful.
Learning outcomes
Aim of the course is to make the students acquainted with advanced topics in Analytical Mechanics. A few subjects in the last part of the course will be chosen in agreement with the students’ preferences.
Course contents
Geometrical foundation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. Hamiltonian flux, Liouville’s and Poincaré’s theorems. Symplectic structure on the Hamiltonian phase space; Poincaré-Cartan 1-form and symplectic form. Canonical transformations and their characterization. Algebraic structure of dynamical variables: Poisson brackets and relations with Lie derivatives. Constants of motion and symmetry properties (Hamiltonian Noether’s theorem). Hamilton-Jacobi equations; action-angle variables in the 1-dimensional case and in the n-dimensional, separable case. Completely integrable Hamiltonian systems: Liouville’s and Arnol’d’s theorems. Canonical perturbation theory and an overview of KAM (Kolmogorov, Arnol’d, Moser) theorem. Advanced topics (alternatively):
i) Canonical perturbation theory and overview of KAM (Kolmogorov, Arnold, Moser) theorem. ii) Poisson manifolds, bihamiltonian systems, Lax method and Toda system
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
A. Fasano, S. Marmi “Analytical Mechanics: An Introduction”, Oxford University Press 2006
Notes on Poisson manifolds & Toda systems
Assessment methods
Oral examination aimed to verify the assimilation of the basic notions and their interconnections.
Alternatively: two questions; presentation of a topic not addressed in the lectures
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030