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zbMath0438.58016MaRDI QIDQ3879983

James M. Nester, Mark J. Gotay

Publication date: 1980

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zbMATH Keywords

equations of motionProca fieldsingular dynamical systemsinfinite number of degrees of freedomdegenerate Lagrangian systemsdynamics of constrained and/or degenerate systemsgeneralized Hamilton equationsinfinite-dimensional presymplectic geometrysingular constraint submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70Hxx)

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