Journal of Physical Studies 2(3), 283–289 (1998)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30970/jps.02.283

ON THE GAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS

V. I. Tretyak
Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
1 Svientsitskii Str., Lviv, UA-290011, Ukraine

A rule for constructing the Lagrangian which ensures gauge invariance under an arbitrary Lie group is proposed for the classical mechanical system with $n$ degrees of freedom.

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