Constrained variational calculus: the second variation (part I)

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Authors Enrico Massa, Danilo Bruno, Gianvittorio Luria, Enrico Pagani

Publication date 18 June 2010

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37Jxx) Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49Jxx) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25)

Abstract: Within the geometrical framework developed in arXiv:0705.2362, the problem of minimality for constrained calculus of variations is analysed among the class of differentiable curves. A fully covariant representation of the second variation of the action functional, based on a suitable gauge transformation of the Lagrangian, is explicitly worked out. Both necessary and sufficient conditions for minimality are proved, and are then reinterpreted in terms of Jacobi fields.

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