Contact Extension and Symplectification

Abstract

This paper mainly studies the contact extension of conservative or dissipative systems, including some old and new results for wholeness. Then extension of contact system is corresponding to the symplectification of contact Hamiltonian system. This is a reciprocal process and the relation between symplectic system and contact system has been discussed. We have an interesting discovery that by adding a pure variable p, the slope of the tangent of the orbit, every differential system can be regarded as an independent subsystem of contact Hamiltonian system defined on the projection space of contact phase space.