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The Hamilton-Jacobi equation is an important nonlinear partial differential equation. In particular, the classical Hamilton-Jacobi method is generally considered to be an important means to solve the holonomic conservative dynamics problems in classical dynamics. According to the classical Hamilton-Jacobi theory, the classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation corresponds to the canonical Hamilton equations of the holonomic conservative dynamics system. If the complete solution of the classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be found, the solution of the canonical Hamilton equations can be found by the algebraic method. From the point of geometry view, the essential of the Hamilton-Jacobi method is that the Hamilton-Jacobi equation promotes the vector field on the cotangent bundle T* M to a constraint submanifold of the manifold T* M x R, and if the integral curve of the promoted vector field can be found, the projection of the integral curve in the cotangent bundle T* M is the solution of the Hamilton equations. According to the geometric theory of the first order partial differential equations, the Hamilton-Jacobi method may be regarded as the study of the characteristic curves which generate the integral manifolds of the Hamilton 2-form omega. This means that there is a duality relationship between the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the canonical Hamilton equations. So if an action field, defined on U x I (U is an open set of the configuration manifold M, I subset of R), is a solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, then there will exist a differentiable map phi from M x R to T* M x R which defines an integral submanifold for the Hamilton 2-form omega. Conversely, if phi* omega = 0 and H-1 (U x I) = 0 (H-1 (U x I) is the first de Rham group of U x I), there will exist an action field S satisfying the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Obviously, the above mentioned geometric theory can not only be applicable to the classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation, but also to the general Hamilton-Jacobi equation, in which some first order partial differential equations correspond to the non-conservative Hamiltonian systems. The geometry theory of the Hamilton-Jacobi method is applied to some special non-conservative Hamiltonian systems, and a new Hamilton-Jacobi method is established. The Hamilton canonical equations of the non-conservative Hamiltonian systems which are applied with non-conservative force F-i = mu(t)p(i) can be solved with the new method. If a complete solution of the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be found, all the first integrals of the non-conservative Hamiltonian system will be found. The classical Hamilton-Jacobi method is a special case of the new Hamilton-Jacobi method. Some examples are constructed to illustrate the proposed method.
