All Questions
Tagged with hamiltonian-mechanics sg.symplectic-geometry
52 questions
49
votes
5
answers
4k
views
are there natural examples of classical mechanics that happens on a symplectic manifold that isn't a cotangent bundle?
I'm curious about just how far the abstraction to a symplectic formalism can be justified by appeal to actual physical examples. There's good motivation, for example, for working over an arbitrary ...
- 1,189
43
votes
2
answers
4k
views
About a letter by Richard Palais of 1965.
In Cushman and Bates, Global Aspects of Classical Integrable Systems, 1997, I have read
In a widely circulated but unpublished letter in 1965, Palais explained the symplectic formulation of ...
- 4,306