The geometry of ordinary variational equations

DOI10.1007/BFB0093438zbMATH Open0936.70001OpenAlexW1564260361MaRDI QIDQ1376249FDOQ1376249

Authors: Olga Rossi 

Publication date: 17 December 1997

Published in: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bfb0093438

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systemssymmetriesEuler-Lagrange equationsHamilton-Jacobi equationLagrangian dynamicsLegendre transformationinverse problem of calculus of variationsjet prolongationfibre manifoldsEuler-Lagrange distributionHamilton extremalsHamilton-Jacobi distributionholonomic sectionsintegral sectionsJacobi complete integralLepagean-formquasi-configuration spacesemiregular Lagrangian systemssingular Lagrangian systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-02) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H50) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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