Symmetries and conservation laws for generalized Hamiltonian systems

DOI10.1007/BF00671823zbMath0471.70017MaRDI QIDQ1157975

Willy Sarlet, Frans Cantrijn

Publication date: 1981

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

canonical transformationsEmden equationdynamical systems on a contact manifoldone parameter groups of symmetriesselfadjoint vector fieldssymmetry of the contact form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Applications of quantum theory to specific physical systems (81V99) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis (46N99) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

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