A new presymplectic geometrical framework for time-dependent Lagrangian systems: the constraint algorithm and the second-order differential equation problem

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/28/314zbMath0972.37046WikidataQ115293428 ScholiaQ115293428MaRDI QIDQ4520707

Stefano Vignolo

Publication date: 13 December 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/33/28/314

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systems; Lagrangian systems; gauge; constraint algorithm; presymplectic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70H45: Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints

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

70H03: Lagrange's equations

37J60: Nonholonomic dynamical systems

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