The geometry of the Gibbs-Appell equations and Gauss' principle of least constraint

DOI10.1016/0034-4877(96)87675-0MaRDI QIDQ1373539zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew D. Lewis

Publication date 20 November 1997

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechCDSTR:1995.014

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian metrictangent bundleSasaki metrickinetic energyconfiguration manifoldGibbs function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30)

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