Poisson bracket

Layer 1 — Physicsin the classical-mechanics subtree

Bilinear antisymmetric operation {f,g} = Σ (∂f/∂q_i ∂g/∂p_i − ∂f/∂p_i ∂g/∂q_i) on phase-space functions. Encodes symplectic structure and classical limit of commutators.

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