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Now we are ready to geometrize Hamiltonian mechanics to the context of manifolds. First we make phase spaces nonlinear, and then we study Hamiltonian systems in this context.
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Marsden, J.E., Ratiu, T.S. (1999). Hamiltonian Systems on Symplectic Manifolds. In: Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 17. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21792-5_5
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