Canonical transformations and the equivalence problem

DOI10.1063/1.527314zbMath0615.70014OpenAlexW2057489030MaRDI QIDQ4723334

J.-E. Werth, D. T. Moreira

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527314

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemsHamiltonianconfiguration spacecotangent bundleLagrangian systemsEquivalence relationsclassically observable trajectoriesgroup of canonical fiber-invariant transformationssmooth real- valued functionssymplectic subgroup of canonical fiber-invariant transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10)

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The inverse problem in the calculus of variations and the geometry of the tangent bundle

Cites Work

• Equations of motion, commutation relations and ambiguities in the Lagrangian formalism
• The equivalence problem for nonconservative mechanics

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