The inverse problem of the calculus of variations: The use of geometrical calculus in Douglas’s analysis

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-02-02994-XzbMath1038.37044MaRDI QIDQ2782668

Geoff Prince, Gerard Thompson, Willy Sarlet

Publication date: 8 April 2002

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problem; Lagrangian systems; geometrical calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70H30: Other variational principles in mechanics

49N45: Inverse problems in optimal control

70H03: Lagrange's equations

37J30: Obstructions to integrability for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (nonintegrability criteria)

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