The Hamilton-Cartan formalism for higher order conserved currents. I: Regular first order Lagrangians (Q792665)

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The Hamilton-Cartan formalism for higher order conserved currents. I: Regular first order Lagrangians
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    The Hamilton-Cartan formalism for higher order conserved currents. I: Regular first order Lagrangians (English)
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    The Hamilton-Cartan formalism for regular first order Lagrangian field theories is extended in a natural way to deal with conserved currents which depend on higher order derivatives of the field variables. As an application the sine-Gordon equation is briefly presented.
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    Euler-Lagrange variational problem
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    Poisson bracket
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    sine-Gordon equation
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