A Symplectic Rigidity Theorem.
Scattering monodromy and the A 1 singularity
We present the notion of scattering monodromy for a two degree of freedom hyperbolic oscillator and apply this idea to determine the Picard-Lefschetz monodromy of the isolated singular point of a quadratic function of two complex variables.
On D’Alembert’s Principle
A formulation of the D’Alembert principle as the orthogonal projection of the acceleration onto an affine plane determined by nonlinear nonholonomic constraints is given. Consequences of this formulation for the equations of motion are discussed in the context of several examples, together with the attendant singular reduction theory.
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