Symmetries, first integrals and the inverse problem of Lagrangian mechanics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/14/9/018zbMath0484.70019OpenAlexW2061263259MaRDI QIDQ3944067

Willy Sarlet

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/14/9/018

zbMATH Keywords

Noether symmetryone degree of freedomsymmetry vector field and associated constant of motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's principle (70H25) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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