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arxiv: math-ph/0203045 · v1 · submitted 2002-03-22 · 🧮 math-ph · math.MP

Skinner-Rusk approach to time-dependent mechanics

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The geometric approach to autonomous classical mechanical systems in terms of a canonical first-order system on the Whitney sum of the tangent and cotangent bundle, developed by R. Skinner and R. Rusk, is extended to the time-dependent framework.

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