Contact and non-contact type Hamiltonian systems generated by second-order Lagrangians

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Abstract

We show that some very naturally occurring energy manifolds that are induced by second-order Lagrangians L = L(u, u′, u″) are not, in general, of contact type in (ℝ
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)23-49
JournalErgodic theory and dynamical systems
Volume27
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

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MR2297085

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