Equivalent Lagrangians: Multidimensional case

DOI10.1063/1.525062zbMath0522.70024OpenAlexW2033792449MaRDI QIDQ3673188

H. Harleston, Sergio A. Hojman

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525062

zbMATH Keywords

s-equivalence of multidimensional Lagrangianstrajectories coincide

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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• Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a Lagrangian in field theory. III: Generalized analytic representations of tensorial field equations

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