General volume-preserving mechanical systems

DOI10.1023/A:1025765428059zbMath1048.53057arXivmath-ph/0208033MaRDI QIDQ1425068

Han Ying Guo, Ke Wu, Bin Zhou

Publication date: 15 March 2004

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics, Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0208033

zbMATH Keywords

cohomology; symplectic manifold; mechanical system; volume-preserving; Euler-Lagrange cohomology; volume preserving mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53D05: Symplectic manifolds (general theory)

70H05: Hamilton's equations

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

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