On the global version of Euler–Lagrange equations

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/26/306zbMATH Open1069.70008arXivmath-ph/0305045OpenAlexW2005568409MaRDI QIDQ4466331FDOQ4466331

Jorge Eduardo Solomin, R. E. Gamboa Saraví

Publication date: 9 June 2004

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

Abstract: The introduction of a covariant derivative on the velocity phase space is needed for a global expression of Euler-Lagrange equations. The aim of this paper is to show how its torsion tensor turns out to be involved in such a version.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0305045

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zbMATH Keywords

torsion termhorizontal Lagrange-Poincaré equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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