Variationally trivial Lagrangians and locally variational differential equations of arbitrary order (Q1295475): Difference between revisions

We continue our investigation of the Lagrangian formalism on jet bundle extensions using Fock space methods. We are able to provide the most general form of a variationally trivial Lagrangian of arbitrary order and we also give a generic expression for the most general locally variational differential equation. As anticipated in the literature, these expressions involve some special combinations of the highest order derivatives, called hyper-Jacobians.