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$\displaystyle{ \begin{aligned} &= \int_{t_1}^{t_2} (D L \circ \Gamma[q]) \delta_\eta \Gamma[q] \\ \end{aligned}}$

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$\displaystyle{ \begin{aligned} &= \int_{t_1}^{t_2} [\partial_0 L (t, q, v), \partial_1 L (t, q, v), \partial_2 L (t, q, v)] (0, \eta(t), D\eta(t)) \\ \end{aligned}}$

There are two kinds of tuples: up tuples and down tuples. We write tuples as ordered lists of their components; a tuple is delimited by parentheses if it is an up tuple and by square brackets if it is a down tuple.

— Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

So $\displaystyle{\left[\partial_0 L (t, q, v), \partial_1 L (t, q, v), \partial_2 L (t, q, v)\right] (0, \eta(t), D\eta(t))}$ is really a dot product:

$\displaystyle{ \begin{aligned} & \int_{t_1}^{t_2} (D L \circ \Gamma[q]) \delta_\eta \Gamma[q] \\ &= \int_{t_1}^{t_2} [\partial_0 L (t, q, v), \partial_1 L (t, q, v), \partial_2 L (t, q, v)] (0, \eta(t), D\eta(t)) \\ &= \int_{t_1}^{t_2} [\partial_1 L (t, q, v) \eta(t) + \partial_2 L (t, q, v) D\eta(t)] \\ \end{aligned}}$

— Me@2019-12-14 06:11:22 PM

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