A simple general theorem is used as a tool that generates nonlocal constants of motion for Lagrangian systems. We review some cases where the constants that we find are useful in the study of the systems: the homogeneous potentials of degree $ -2 $, the mechanical systems with viscous fluid resistance and the conservative and dissipative Maxwell-Bloch equations of laser dynamics. We also prove a new result on explosion in the past for mechanical system with hydraulic (quadratic) fluid resistance and bounded potential.
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Figure 1. Generic (periodic) and homoclinic orbits of $ (\dot q_3, \ddot q_3) $ in the conservative case of the Maxwell-Bloch equations (Subsec. 6.1); the dashed lines and the dots are not visited by solutions, but they are level sets or stationary points of the potential function associated with equation (35)
Figure 2. Projection of forward orbits on the $ q_1, q_2 $ plane in two dissipative cases with $ c = 2a $ of the Maxwell-Bloch equations (Subsec. 6.2), computed numerically. On the left with $ g^2k\le ab $ the solution goes to the origin; on the right with $ g^2k> ab $ the orbit converges to a point on the (dashed) circle with radius $ r_\infty $, as in equation (44)
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Generic (periodic) and homoclinic orbits of
Projection of forward orbits on the