Higher-order mechanics: variational principles and other topics

DOI10.3934/jgm.2013.5.493zbMath1284.35014arXiv1201.4102OpenAlexW3121489610MaRDI QIDQ2438161

Narciso Román-Roy, Pedro Daniel Prieto-Martínez

Publication date: 10 March 2014

Published in: Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4102

zbMATH Keywords

variational principleshigher-order mechanicsLagrangian and Hamiltonian formalismsSkinner-Rusk formulationnon-autonomous sytems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Topological dynamics of nonautonomous systems (37B55) Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H50)

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