On the Maslov and the Morse index for constrained variational problem

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 403-437

  Piccione, Paolo ^a   Tausk, Daniel Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Maslov index; Nonholonomic mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036075116     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-7824(01)01225-9     Document Type: Article

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