On the inversion of the Lagrange-Dirichlet stability theorem mechanical and generalized systems

DOI10.1007/BF00962611zbMath0509.70010MaRDI QIDQ1838335

Miguel Sofer

Publication date: 1983

Published in: ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00962611

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics; stable equilibrium; Finsler space; conservative; unstable equilibrium; minimum of potential energy; Lagrange-Dirichlet stability theorem; no differentiability of energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

70C20: Statics

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