Classical dynamics of non-holonomic systems : a geometric approach
A new look at classical mechanics of constrained systems
Jet bundle geometry, dynamical connections, and the inverse problem of lagrangian mechanics
A dynamical approach to relativistic continuum thermodynamics
A new geometrical framework for time-dependent Hamiltonian mechanics.
On the notion of Jacobi fields in constrained calculus of variations
In variational calculus, the minimality of a given functional under arbitrary deformations with fixed end-points is established through an analysis of the so called . In this paper, the argument is examined in the context of constrained variational calculus, assuming piecewise differentiable extremals, commonly referred to as . The approach relies on the existence of a fully covariant representation of the second variation of the action functional, based on a family of gauge transformations of...
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