Here, adding degrees of freedom in an auxiliary layer, coupled appropriately to a symmetrized form of the original system, allows one to embed a non-reciprocal system within a Hamiltonian system — with the original dynamics recovered under a constraint that ties each auxiliary variable to its original.
Hamiltonian description of non-reciprocal interactions
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