A geometric approach to constrained mechanical systems, symmetries and inverse problems

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/40/015zbMath0940.70008MaRDI QIDQ4259829

Stefano Vignolo, Paola Morando

Publication date: 30 August 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/31/40/015

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problem; symmetries; constrained mechanical systems; Helmholtz conditions; non-holonomic Lagrangian mechanical systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

70F25: Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles

70H33: Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

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