Reduction, symmetry, and phases in mechanics / J.E. Marsden, R. Montgomery, and T. Ratiu.

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Main Authors: Marsden, Jerrold E. (Author), Montgomery, Richard, 1956- (Author), Ratiu, T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Providence, Rhode Island, United States : American Mathematical Society, 1990.
Series:Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; Volume 88, no. 436.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Â1 Some Examples""; ""Â2 Reconstruction of dynamics for Hamiltonian systems""; ""Â3 Reconstruction of dynamics for Lagrangian systems""; ""Â4 Ehresmann connections and holonomy""; ""Â5 Reconstruction phases""; ""Â6 Averaging connections""; ""Â7 Existence, uniqueness and curvature of the Hannay-Berry connections""; ""Â8 The Hannay-Berry connection in the presence of additional symmetry""; ""Â9 The Hannay-Berry connection on level sets of the momentum map""; ""Â10 Case I: Bundles of symplectic manifolds with the canonical connection
  • Integrable systems""""Â11 Case II: Cartan connections; moving systems""; ""Â12 The Cartan angles; the ball in the hoop and the Foucault pendulum""; ""Â13 Induced connections on the tower of bundles""; ""Â14 The Hannay-Berry connection for general systems""; ""References""