An alternative approach to the Cartan form in Lagrangian field theories

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/20/2/019zbMath0652.58002OpenAlexW2033284348MaRDI QIDQ3797905

David J.Saunders

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/20/2/019

zbMATH Keywords

jet bundlesalmost tangent structureLagrangian field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets in global analysis (58A20) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20)

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