Reduction of Hamilton's variational principle

DOI10.1080/713603744zbMath1003.70013OpenAlexW1988827374MaRDI QIDQ4762959

Jerrold E. Marsden, Sameer M. Jalnapurkar

Publication date: 23 January 2003

Published in: Dynamics and Stability of Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/713603744

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Poincaré equationsLagrange-Poincaré equationsreduced variational principlesnon-abelian Routh reductionpreservation of momentum mapsymplectic analogue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's principle (70H25) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30)

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