Geometric mechanics

DOI10.1007/b84214zbMath1026.70001MaRDI QIDQ1852959

Waldyr Muniz Oliva

Publication date: 21 January 2003

Published in: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/b84214

zbMATH Keywords

Möbius transformations; geodesics; configuration spaces; Riemannian manifolds; relativity; Einstein equations; differential geometry; Aubry-Mather theory; viscosity solutions; Levi-Civita connection; Newtonian mechanics; nonholonomic constraints; pseudo-Riemannian manifolds; Lorentz group; dynamical equations; geometric mechanics; covariant derivative; vakonomic mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

70F25: Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles

70-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems

70Hxx: Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

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