The generalized Maupertuis principle

DOI10.1070/RD1998V003N02ABEH000067zbMATH Open0941.70014OpenAlexW4241202515MaRDI QIDQ1286787

K. Appert

Publication date: 26 July 2000

Published in: Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1070/rd1998v003n02abeh000067

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsLagrangianrelativistic mechanicsMaupertuis principlesingular boundaryJacobi metricexistence and uniqueness of geodesicsLorentzian signaturenon-Riemannian metricspregeodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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