Time-dependent Lagrangian systems: a geometric approach using semibasic forms

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/23/15/020zbMath0707.70014MaRDI QIDQ3489534

Manuel F. Rañada

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/23/15/020

zbMATH Keywords

time-dependent Lagrangian systems; Euler-Lagrange vector field; geometric formalism; time-dependent Lagrangian inverse problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37J99: Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

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

70H15: Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

70G10: Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics

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