A new geometrical look at Ostrogradsky's procedure

DOI10.1142/S0219887818501281zbMATH Open1390.70039arXiv1609.07388WikidataQ62562723 ScholiaQ62562723MaRDI QIDQ4566458FDOQ4566458

Authors: Enrico Massa, Stefano Vignolo, Roberto Cianci, Sante Carloni 

Publication date: 27 June 2018

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Making use of the modern techniques of non-holonomic geometry and constrained variational calculus, a revisitation of Ostrogradsky's Hamiltonian formulation of the evolution equations determined by a Lagrangian of order >= 2 in the derivatives of the configuration variables is presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07388

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zbMATH Keywords

higher order Lagrangiansnon-holonomic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35)

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