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Skinner-Rusk approach to time-dependent mechanics

J. Cortes, S. Martinez, F. Cantrijn

math-pharXiv:math-ph/0203045

Abstract

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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