Time-Dependent Lagrangians Invariant by a Vector Field

We study the reduction of nonautonomous regular Lagrangian systems by symmetries, which are generated by vector fields associated with connections in the configuration bundle of the system Q × \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$\mathbb{R}$$ \end{document} → \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$\mathbb{R}$$ \end{document}. These kind of symmetries generalize the idea of ‘time-invariance’ (which corresponds to taking the trivial connection in the above trivial bundle).