Equations of motion, commutation relations and ambiguities in the Lagrangian formalism

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(82)90334-7zbMath0501.70020OpenAlexW2083364319WikidataQ59308046 ScholiaQ59308046MaRDI QIDQ1172412

Marc Henneaux

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(82)90334-7

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemscale factorone degree of freedomdecoupled systemsexistence and uniqueness of Lagrangiansgiven system of second order equations of motionnonsingular Lagrangians equivalent if equivalent equations of motion and symplectic two-forms differ by numerical factorspherically symmetric potentials in two dimensionstotal-time derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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