Global variational methods on smooth nonholonomic constraints

DOI10.1016/S0021-7824(02)01269-2zbMath1028.58015MaRDI QIDQ1406923

Roberto Giambò, Fabio Giannoni

Publication date: 7 September 2003

Published in: Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

regularityexistencemultiplicityvariational problemsnonholonomic mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

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