Variational principles on principal fiber bundles: A geometric theory of Clebsch potentials and Lin constraints

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(87)90026-XzbMath0652.58025OpenAlexW2171421055MaRDI QIDQ1107187

Alberto Ibort, Hernan Cendra, Jerrold E. Marsden

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(87)90026-x

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlecritical pointsLagrangianYang-Mills fieldprincipal bundleconnection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Hamilton's principle (70H25)

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