Hamiltonian formalism for nonlocal Lagrangians

DOI10.1063/1.530492zbMath0807.70014OpenAlexW2164699635MaRDI QIDQ4314260

Jordi Vives, Josep Llosa

Publication date: 9 March 1995

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/24567

zbMATH Keywords

phase spaceLegendre transformationlocal Lagrangiansequivalent singular first order Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99)

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