Symplectic connections and the linearisation of Hamiltonian systems

DOI10.1017/S030821050002477XzbMath0795.58018MaRDI QIDQ4713385

Jerrold E. Marsden, Geneviève Raugel, Tudor S. Ratiu

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

symmetry; Hamiltonian system; first variation; symplectic connections; Lie-Poisson systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35F20: Nonlinear first-order PDEs

37J99: Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

53C05: Connections (general theory)

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