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Singular Legendre transform of a degree-one velocity Lagrangian
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For
L
=
m
c
∣
x
˙
∣
−
V
(
x
)
,
p
=
m
c
∣
x
˙
∣
x
˙
,
∣
p
∣
=
m
c
,
H
=
V
(
x
)
.
(7)
The momentum loses the speed, so the velocity cannot be recovered from
(
x
,
p
)
and the ordinary inverse Legendre transform does not exist.
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