The constraint algorithm for time-dependent Lagrangians

DOI10.1063/1.530476zbMath0810.70014OpenAlexW2018485283MaRDI QIDQ4317957

Domingo Chinea, Manuel de León, Juan Carlos Marrero

Publication date: 18 April 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.530476

zbMATH Keywords

cosymplectic structureautonomous Lagrangiansevolution spacealmost stable tangent geometryGotay and Nester algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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