Infinitesimal calculus of variations

DOI10.1023/A:1026671317388MaRDI QIDQ1805702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hirokazu Nishimura

Publication date 18 November 1999

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026671317388

zbMATH Keywords

energygeneralized conservation lawsmomentumsynthetic differential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other applications of nonstandard models (economics, physics, etc.) (03H10) Topos-theoretic approach to differentiable manifolds (58A03) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Review text

The author seeks to develop an infinitesimal calculus of variations in the context of synthetic differential geometry (SDG). He assumes that the reader is familiar with the basic underpinnings and philosophy of SDG as developed in the recent text by \textit{R. Lavendhomme} [`Basic concepts of synthetic differential geometry' (Kluwer, Math. Sci. 13, Kluwer Texts Dordrecht) (1996; Zbl 0866.58001)] although some of the needed definitions are summarized in the first section. The basic aim of the paper is to develop a version of Lagrange's equation in this setting, and then this is used to derive generalized conservation laws of momentum and energy. The basic setting for these derivations is on a microlinear space \(M\) with a symmetric connection with an associated real-line valued function \(L\) (Lagrangian) on the tangent bundle of \(M\).

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