Fibre derivatives: Some applications to singular Lagrangians

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(00)88872-2zbMath0983.37078arXivmath-ph/0007038MaRDI QIDQ1573872

Xavier Gràcia

Publication date: 9 August 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0007038

zbMATH Keywords

free particle; singular Lagrangian; fibre derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E30: Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces

37J99: Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

70H40: Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

70H45: Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

70H03: Lagrange's equations

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