Hamiltonian Systems

Walter Thirring and Evans Harrell
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Walter Thirring: University of Vienna, Institute for Theoretical Physics
Evans Harrell: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chapter 3 in A Course in Mathematical Physics 1, 1978, pp 76-141 from Springer

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

Keywords: Phase Space; Vector Field; Perturbation Theory; Hamiltonian System; Poisson Bracket (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-8526-1_3

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