Geometric Mechanics

DOI10.1142/p802zbMath1381.70001MaRDI QIDQ5892581

Darryl D. Holm

Publication date: 23 June 2011

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/p802

zbMATH Keywords

Lie group; adjoint action; Euler-Poincaré equations; coadjoint action; semidirect-product structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

37N05: Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics

70G65: Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics

70E17: Motion of a rigid body with a fixed point

37Jxx: Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

70-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems

70Hxx: Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics