Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for constrained variational problems

DOI10.1017/S0308210500002183zbMath1015.58001arXivmath/0004148MaRDI QIDQ4794338

Daniel V. Tausk, Paolo Piccione

Publication date: 20 March 2003

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0004148

zbMATH Keywords

normal geodesics; vakonomic mechanics; linear constraints on the derivative; solutions of Lagrangian variational problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70G75: Variational methods for problems in mechanics

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

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

70F25: Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles

53C17: Sub-Riemannian geometry

49K10: Optimality conditions for free problems in two or more independent variables

37J60: Nonholonomic dynamical systems

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