Hamiltonian formalism in the presence of higher derivatives (Q1002660)

This paper contains a short list of elementary formulas which describe classical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, and which are necessary for comparison of various sophisticated approaches used in the modern literature. The author also considers the case where the Lagrangian contains \(N\) time derivatives of \(n\) coordinate variables. For nonlocal models \(N= \infty\).