The Inverse Variational Problem in Classical Mechanics

DOI10.1142/4309zbMath0961.70001OpenAlexW4243255070MaRDI QIDQ4506349

Jan T. Łopuszański

Publication date: 17 September 2000

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/4309

zbMATH Keywords

equivalenceEuler-Lagrange equationsNewtonian equationsHelmholtz conditionsLagrange functionPoincaré lemmainverse variational problemnon-relativistic caseHamilton's formalism\((1+1)\)-dimensional particle motion\((3+1)\)-dimensional particle motionmodified equations of motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Inverse problems for systems of particles (70F17) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-01) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70Hxx)

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