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Legendre Duality Between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics

Mathematical Physics 2011-08-30 v1 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

In some previous papers, a Legendre duality between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics has been developed. The (\rho,\eta)-tangent application of the Legendre bundle morphism associated to a Lagrangian L or Hamiltonian H is presented. Using that, a Legendre description of Lagrangian Mechanics and Hamiltonian Mechanics is developed. Duality between Lie algebroids structure, adapted (\rho,\eta)-basis, distinguished linear (\rho,\eta)-connections and mechanical (\rho,\eta)-systems is the scope of this paper. In the particular case of Lie algebroids, new results are presented. In the particular case of the usual Lie algebroid tangent bundle, the classical results are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1108.5531,
  title  = {Legendre Duality Between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics},
  author = {Constantin M. Arcuş},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5531},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

28 pages. substantial overlap with arXiv:1007.1541