A new geometrical look at Ostrogradsky's procedure

DOI10.1142/S0219887818501281MaRDI QIDQ4566458zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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