Contact geometry in Lagrangian mechanics

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(98)00037-0zbMath0951.70012arXivphysics/9802046MaRDI QIDQ1299196

Pavol Ševera

Publication date: 2 January 2001

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9802046

zbMATH Keywords

Hamilton-Jacobi equationsymplectic geometryLie groupphase spacecontact geometrygeometric quantizationprincipal \(G\)-bundleLagrangian mechanicscharacteristicsspace-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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