Nonconservative Lagrangian Mechanics: Purely Causal Equations of Motion

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Foundations of Physics 45 (6):661-672 (2015)
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This work builds on the Volterra series formalism presented in Dreisigmeyer and Young to model nonconservative systems. Here we treat Lagrangians and actions as ‘time dependent’ Volterra series. We present a new family of kernels to be used in these Volterra series that allow us to derive a single retarded equation of motion using a variational principle

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10.1007/s10701-015-9892-7

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