Lifting geometric objects to a cotangent bundle, and the geometry of the cotangent bundle of a tangent bundle

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(87)90003-9zbMath0699.53042OpenAlexW2075600841MaRDI QIDQ913273

Willy Sarlet, Mike Crampin, Frans Cantrijn

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(87)90003-9

zbMATH Keywords

geometric objectscotangent bundleLagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamicsintegrable almost tangent structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Classical field theories (70Sxx)

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