A covering second-order Lagrangian for the relativistic top without forces

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Authors Roman Ya. Matsyuk

Publication date 16 March 2004

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3618

zbMATH Keywords

Dixon equationHamilton-Ostrogradskii approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrange's equations (70H03) Motion of a rigid body with a fixed point (70E17) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

Abstract: A parameter-invariant variational problem with a manifestly covariant Lagrangian function of second order is considered, which covers the case of the free relativistic top at constraint manifold of constant acceleration

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