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Project

Aspects of reduction and symmetry in geometric mechanics

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3E002606

Duration

01 October 2009 → 30 September 2012

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Frans Cantrijn

Fellow

Tom Mestdag

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Analysis
- Applied mathematics in specific fields
- Geometry
- Astronomy and space sciences
- Classical physics
- Materials physics
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum physics

Keywords

Lagrangian systems Geometric mechanics differential geometry

Project description

The term Geometric Mechanics refers to the application of methods and results from differential geometry to the study of classical mechanical systems. In this project we investigate, within the context of geometric mechanics, aspects of symmetries for Lagrangian and nonholonomic mechanical systems.

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