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A unifying mechanical equation with applications to non-holonomic constraints and dissipative phenomena

Mathematical Physics 2015-10-26 v2 math.MP

Abstract

A mechanical covariant equation is introduced which retains all the effectingness of the Lagrange equation while being able to describe in a unified way other phenomena including friction, non-holonomic constraints and energy radiation (Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac force equation). A quantization rule adapted to the dissipative degrees of freedom is proposed which does not pass through the variational formulation.

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@article{arxiv.1410.0254,
  title  = {A unifying mechanical equation with applications to non-holonomic constraints and dissipative phenomena},
  author = {E. Minguzzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0254},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Latex2e, 10 pages. V2: some corrections in Sect. 3