AFFINE DUALITY AND LAGRANGIAN AND HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS

DOI10.1142/S0219887811005336zbMath1273.70023MaRDI QIDQ3087433

David J.Saunders, Olga Krupková

Publication date: 16 August 2011

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219887811005336

zbMATH Keywords

variational problems; jet bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70G75: Variational methods for problems in mechanics

70H05: Hamilton's equations

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

70H03: Lagrange's equations

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Lepage Manifolds, Distinguished Riemann-Hamilton geometry in the polymomentum electrodynamics, Dual jet bundles, Hamiltonian systems and connections, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian duality

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