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This paper develops a novel method for generating discrete equations of Lagrangian mechanics that are constructed to evolve near subsets or submanifolds of the configuration space in which empirical observations are concentrated. When the discrete observations are distributed by a measure ρ on the configuration space Ω, error bounds for the discrete Lagrangian formulation are derived in terms of the...