Variational development of the semi-symplectic geometry of nonholonomic mechanics (Q2480672)
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Variational development of the semi-symplectic geometry of nonholonomic mechanics (English)
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3 April 2008
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Holonomic mechanics shines in the company of symplectic geometry of a phase space, in a way which naturally diminishes the impositions from tangent and cotangent fibrations. Analogously, nonholonomic mechanics shines in the company of semi-symplectic geometry and the present paper is a large exposition of the semi-symplectic category. A variational approach is chosen in order to include nonlinear constraints irrespective of whether or not they are obtained from Chetaev's rule.
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nonholonomic mechanics
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semi-symplectic geometry
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