 Singular Legendre transform of a degree-one velocity Lagrangian (source code)

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= Singular Legendre transform of a degree-one velocity Lagrangian

For $L=mc|\dot x|-V(x)$,
$$
p=mc\frac{\dot x}{|\dot x|},
\qquad |p|=mc,
\qquad H=V(x).
$$
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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