An affine framework for analytical mechanics
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
An affine Cartan calculus is developed. The concepts of special affine bundles and special affine duality are introduced. The canonical isomorphisms, fundamental for Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of the dynamics in the affine setting are proved.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0303053,
title = {An affine framework for analytical mechanics},
author = {Pawel Urbanski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0303053},
year = {2007}
}
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LamsTex, 25 pages