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Developing geometric integrators for Hamiltonizable nonholonomic systems

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March 26, 2010
Abstract
Although it is well known that nonholonomic mechanical systems are not Hamiltonian, recent research has uncovered a variety of techniques which allow one to express the reduced, constrained dynamics of certain classes of nonholonomic systems as Hamiltonian. In this talk I will discuss the application of these methods to develop alternative geometric integrators for nonholonomic systems with perhaps more efficiency than the known nonholonomic integrators.