Hamiltonian Mechanics and Symplectic Geometry

Kang Feng and Mengzhao Qin ()
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Kang Feng: Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing
Mengzhao Qin: Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing

Chapter Chapter 3 in Symplectic Geometric Algorithms for Hamiltonian Systems, 2010, pp 165-186 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Hamiltonian mechanics is geometry in phase space. Phase space has the structure of a symplectic manifold.

Keywords: Poisson Bracket; Symplectic Manifold; Symplectic Structure; Canonical Transformation; Cotangent Bundle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01777-3_4

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