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Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Manuel de León, ICMAT-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
Generalized Hamiltonian systems and applications to nonholonomic
mechanics
Over twenty years ago Alan Weinstein proposed to formulate
mechanics in the framework of Lie algebroids. The use of Lie
algebroids in mechanics has recently permitted two unexpected
applications: the development of a Hamilton--Jacobi theory and a
simple reduced scheme for nonholonomic mechanical systems.