Publication:4817685

Jerrold E. Marsden, Hernan Cendra, Sergey Pekarsky, Tudor S. Ratiu

Publication date: 15 September 2004

Full work available at URL: http://www.ams.org/distribution/mmj/vol3-3-2003/cendra-etal.pdf

Euler-Lagrange; geometric mechanics; Lagrangian reduction; Euler-Poincaré; Hamilton-Poincaré; Lagrange-Poincaré

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

70H30: Other variational principles in mechanics

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