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Retraction: Tangent structures and analytical mechanics; pp. 98–103

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Author

Maido Rahula

Abstract

We establish a link between the sector-forms of White and the exterior forms of Cartan. We show that the Hamiltonian system on T²M reduces to Lagrange's equations on the osculating bundle OscM. The structures T^kM and Osc^k^–1M are presented explicitly.

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