Hamiltonian perturbation theory in noncanonical coordinates

DOI10.1063/1.525429zbMath0516.70023OpenAlexW2058919672MaRDI QIDQ3664480

Robert G. Littlejohn

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525429

zbMATH Keywords

extended phase spacenoncanonical coordinatesperturbation calculationsnoncanonical transformationsPoincaré-Cartan differential form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H09) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10)

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