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Chetaev vs. vakonomic prescriptions in constrained field theories with parametrized variational calculus

Enrico Bibbona, Lorenzo Fatibene, Mauro Francaviglia

math-pharXiv:math-ph/0608063

Abstract

Starting from a characterization of admissible Cheataev and vakonomic variations in a field theory with constraints we show how the so called parametrized variational calculus can help to derive the vakonomic and the non-holonomic field equations. We present an example in field theory where the non-holonomic method proved to be unphysical.

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