The Hamiltonian formulation of regular rth-order Lagrangian field theories

DOI10.1007/BF00405859zbMath0514.58013MaRDI QIDQ1051319

William F. Shadwick

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equationhierarchy of equivalence classes of contact m-forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets in global analysis (58A20) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99)

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Cites Work

• Algebraic aspects of nonlinear differential equations
• Noether's theorem and Steudel's conserved currents for the sine-Gordon equation
• The Hamilton Cartan formalism for rth-order Lagrangians and the integrability of the KdV and modified KdV equations
• Variational principles on rth order jets of fibre bundles in field theory
• On generating forms of K-generalized Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems

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