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On Geometry of Schmidt Legendre Transformation

Mathematical Physics 2017-03-06 v4 Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

A geometrization of Schmidt-Legendre transformation of the second order Lagrangians is proposed by building a proper Tulczyjew's triplet. The symplectic relation between Ostrogradsky-Legendre and Schmidt-Legendre transformations is obtained. Several examples are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1607.08348,
  title  = {On Geometry of Schmidt Legendre Transformation},
  author = {Oğul Esen and Partha Guha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08348},
  year   = {2017}
}