Abstract
We show how to construct the Lagrangians for any regular mechanical system. The Lagrangians are a linear combination of the left-hand sides of their own equations of motion (up to a total derivative). The examples suggest that the same holds even for singular systems in field theory.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1333-1336 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - 1983 |