A geometric setting for higher-order Dirac–Bergmann theory of constraints

DOI10.1063/1.530691zbMath0823.70016OpenAlexW2043935234MaRDI QIDQ4837145

Olga Krupková

Publication date: 4 July 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.530691

zbMATH Keywords

local dynamics of constrained systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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