Generalized Maupertuis' principle with applications

DOI10.1007/s10114-012-1001-7zbMath1269.37030OpenAlexW2151312831MaRDI QIDQ1928144

Wei Cheng

Publication date: 2 January 2013

Published in: Acta Mathematica Sinica. English Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10114-012-1001-7

zbMATH Keywords

weak KAM solutionsTonelli Hamiltonians\(\alpha\)-functionsgeneralized Maupertuis' principleJacobi-Finsler metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's principle (70H25) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Obstructions to integrability for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (nonintegrability criteria) (37J30)

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