Existence of a Potential for Dissipative Dynamical Systems
- 2 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 52 (1), 9-12
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.9
Abstract
It is shown that the existence of a potential is not a generic property of a continuous nonlinear dissipative system but requires the complete integrability of an associated Hamiltonian system.Keywords
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