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Hamiltonian dynamics on cotangent bundle
I'm stuck with the following claim made in Section 13.1 of Y-G. Oh's book "Symplectic topology and Floer homology". Assume that $N$ is a differential manifold and $S_0 ,S_1\subseteq N$ two ...
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Is this integral zero?
I'd like to know if one integral expression I have can be shown to be zero for all possible cases. Let me introduce some notation.
Consider $\mathfrak{g}=C^{\infty}(M)$ and the dual $\mathfrak{g}^*=\...
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How to make sense of the Euler Lagrange equations for an infinite action?
The Euler–Lagrange equation is an equation satisfied by a function $q$, which is a stationary point of the functional
$S(\boldsymbol q) = \int_a^b L(t,q(t),\dot{q}(t))\, \mathrm{d}t$
Say we have an ...