On the geodesic form of second-order dynamic equations

DOI10.1063/1.533165zbMath0986.70011arXivmath-ph/9906001OpenAlexW1581128387MaRDI QIDQ2737853

Luigi Mangiarotti, Gennadi A. Sardanashvily

Publication date: 30 August 2001

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9906001

zbMATH Keywords

tangent bundlegeodesic equationnonlinear connectionJacobi vector fieldssecond-order dynamic equationconfiguration bundlenonrelativistic mechanicsquadratic dynamic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

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Classical and quantum mechanics with time-dependent parameters ⋮ GEOMETRIC FORMULATION OF NON-AUTONOMOUS MECHANICS

Cites Work

• The inverse problem in the calculus of variations and the geometry of the tangent bundle
• Non-standard connections in classical mechanics
• GEOMETRICAL SETTING OF TIME-DEPENDENT REGULAR SYSTEMS: ALTERNATIVE MODELS.
• Jet methods in nonholonomic mechanics
• Hamiltonian time-dependent mechanics
• Nonholonomic constraints in time-dependent mechanics

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