Origin of the Lagrangian constraints and their relation with the Hamiltonian formulation

DOI10.1063/1.527955zbMath0644.70013OpenAlexW1969239166MaRDI QIDQ3787545

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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/10.1063/1.527955

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationsLagrangian formulationsingular Lagrangianspresymplectic systemsHamiltonian Dirac theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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