Canonical semisprays for higher-order Lagrange spaces

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2007.07.027MaRDI QIDQ2381990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ioan Bucataru

Publication date 26 September 2007

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2007.07.027

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan-Poincaré formsregular Lagrangiansemispray

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

Review text

The author derives conditions which uniquely determine the canonical semispray of a regular Lagrangian of order \(k\). It is proved that such canonical semispray is uniquely determined by two Cartan-Poincaré forms.

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