Geometry of Phase Spaces

Résumé du livre

Devoted to the classical analytical mechanics of systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom, with special attention given to some nonstandard problems, both theoretical and practical. Presents the geometric formulation of analytical mechanics in terms of tangent and cotangent bundles and symplectic and contact manifolds. In contrast to purely formal treatments, the author justifies in physical terms the symplectic structure presupposed by classical Hamiltonian mechanics. The result is that the well-known structures of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory are given a deep geometrical interpretation.