Affiliation:
1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2. Université Côte d'Azur
Abstract
We obtain conditions, which when fulfilled, permit to transform the coordinates of a dynamical system into pairs of canonical ones for some Hamiltonian system. These conditions, restricted to the class of coordinate transformations which act on each coordinate independently, are greatly simplified. However, they are surprisingly successful in defining canonical coordinates and an associated Hamiltonian for several test examples. So, a method is proposed to exploit these simple transformations in a systematic manner.
Publisher
Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)
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