Editorial
Geometric mechanics on nonholonomic submanifolds
In this survey article, nonholonomic mechanics is presented as a part of geometric mechanics. We follow a geometric setting where the constraint manifold is a submanifold in a jet bundle, and a nonholonomic system is modelled as an exterior differential system on the constraint manifold. The approach admits to apply coordinate independent methods, and is not limited to Lagrangian systems under linear constraints. The new methods apply to general (possibly nonconservative) mechanical systems subject...
Lepagean 2-forms in higher order Hamiltonian mechanics. I. Regularity
Lepagean 2-forms in higher order Hamiltonian mechanics. II. Inverse problem
On the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for ordinary differential equations
Lepagean 2-form as a globally defined, closed counterpart of higher-order variational equations on fibered manifolds over one-dimensional bases is introduced, and elementary proofs of the basic theorems concerning the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, based on the notion of Lepagean 2-form and its properties, are given.
Variational metrics on and the geometry of nonconservative mechanics
Noether theorem and first integrals of constrained Lagrangean systems
The dynamics of singular Lagrangean systems is described by a distribution the rank of which is greater than one and may be non-constant. Consequently, these systems possess two kinds of conserved functions, namely, functions which are constant along extremals (constants of the motion), and functions which are constant on integral manifolds of the corresponding distribution (first integrals). It is known that with the help of the (First) Noether theorem one gets constants of the motion. In this...
On regularization of variational problems in first-order field theory
Horizontal and contact forms on constraint manifolds
Helmholtz conditions and their generalizations.
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