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1992 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Hamiltonian Systems

verfasst von : Dr. Walter Thirring

Erschienen in: A Course in Mathematical Physics 1 and 2

Verlag: Springer New York

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A 2-form is canonically defined on the cotangent bundle of a manifold. Diffeomorphisms leaving this 2-form invariant are called canonical transformations.

The Lagrangian (2.3.23) defines a bijection

T(M) T*(M): q→p

, and the corresponding local flow on

T*(M)

satisfies Hamilton’s equations. The flow has the special property of preserving the symplectic structure of

T*(M)

, which is determined by the canonical 2-form.

Metadaten
Titel
Hamiltonian Systems
verfasst von
Dr. Walter Thirring
Copyright-Jahr
1992
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0517-0_3

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