Canonical transformations and the equivalence problem

DOI10.1063/1.527314MaRDI QIDQ4723334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. T. Moreira, J.-E. Werth

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527314

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemsLagrangian systemsconfiguration spaceHamiltoniancotangent bundleEquivalence relationsclassically observable trajectoriesgroup of canonical fiber-invariant transformationssmooth real- valued functionssymplectic subgroup of canonical fiber-invariant transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

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