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What foliations are symplectic foliations?

jan 23 at 16:46 Nicola Ciccoli 1,118●4●10

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Sophus Lie on the symplectic foliation theorem

jan 7 at 16:48 Giuseppe 2,379●7●23

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About a letter by Richard Palais of 1965.

aug 16 at 10:14 Willie Wong 6,987●20●43

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Given a vector field all of whose integral curves are closed, is the period a smooth function?

aug 30 at 7:04 Giuseppe 2,379●7●23

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Is there a coordinate-free proof of the hamiltonian character of the geodesic flow?

feb 17 12 at 6:05 Paul Skerritt 336●3●6

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How the Jacobi metrics may be useful in mechanics with or without constraints?

feb 12 12 at 9:19 alvarezpaiva 4,132●5●21

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In search for a more geometric proof of a result of van der Schaft and Maschke on nonholonomic mechanics.

dec 28 11 at 9:48 Giuseppe 2,379●7●23

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The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics without going through variational principles.

nov 25 11 at 9:35 Paul Skerritt 336●3●6

 
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What happens when Appell-Chetaev’s rule for constrained mechanical systems is not applicable?

oct 11 11 at 13:53 Giuseppe 2,379●7●23

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What are elementary applications of the Frobenius’Theorem in the Classical Differential Geometry?

sep 8 11 at 20:12 Deane Yang 12.6k●1●33●82

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