Hamiltonian Formalism in the Presence of Higher Derivatives

Abstract

A short review of basic formulas from Hamiltonian formalism in classical mechanics in the case when Lagrangian contains N time-derivatives of n coordinate variables. For non-local models N=infinity.

8 pages

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