Equivalence problems for first order Lagrangians on the line

DOI10.1016/0022-0396(89)90095-8zbMath0677.49034OpenAlexW2112357856MaRDI QIDQ1123395

Peter J. Olver, Niky Kamran

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0396(89)90095-8

zbMATH Keywords

equivalence problemsfirst order particle Lagrangianspseudo-groups of contact, point, and fiber-preserving transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99)

Related Items (12)

Equivalence and the Cartan form ⋮ Classical invariant theory and the equivalence problem for particle Lagrangians. I: Binary forms ⋮ Classification of first-order Lagrangians on the line ⋮ The differential invariants of particle Lagrangians under equivalence by contact transformations ⋮ Inductive moving frames ⋮ Invariants for the Lagrangian equivalence problem ⋮ On the equivalence of variational problems. I ⋮ Differential invariants of a class of Lagrangian systems with two degrees of freedom ⋮ Equivalence problem for compatible bi-Hamiltonian structures on three-dimensional orientable manifolds ⋮ Two-dimensional systems that arise from the Noether classification of Lagrangians on the line ⋮ The geometry of point extensions of a class of second-order differential equations ⋮ The Structure of Legendre Foliations

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