Geometric Lagrangian approach to first-order systems and applications

DOI10.1063/1.527954MaRDI QIDQ3787544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 1988

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527954

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian formulationconstraint algorithmregular Lagrangianstheory of presymplectic systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20)

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• Non-standard fractional Lagrangians
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