Invariants of Lagrangians and their classifications

DOI10.1063/1.530804zbMath0815.70013OpenAlexW1987290994MaRDI QIDQ4327195

Włodzimierz M. Mikulski, Jacek Gancarzewicz, Jacek Debecki, Manuel de León

Publication date: 5 April 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.530804

zbMATH Keywords

vector fieldsLegendre transformationsnatural transformations of finite orderPoincaré-Cartan one-forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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