Canonical Cartan equations for higher order variational problems

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(84)90001-9MaRDI QIDQ1080240zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date 1984

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(84)90001-9

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationsPoincaré-Cartan formvariational principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Review text

The problem of global variational calculus is to formulate intrinsically the Euler-Lagrange equations which characterize the critical sections. For variational problems of arbitrary order in one variable and for those in n-variables of order 1 or 2, this is attained by means of the Poincaré-Cartan form. The known result for r-order variational problems in n variables with \(r>2\) and \(n>1\) is that the Poincaré-Cartan form is not unique. The author of the present paper shows that there exists a unique ordinary \((n+1)\)-form which fulfills three simple axioms.

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