An alternative form of the Helmholtz criterion in the inverse problem of calculus of variations

DOI10.1023/B:MATH.0000032834.91846.02zbMATH Open1056.49032arXivmath/0308179OpenAlexW1971282395MaRDI QIDQ1877320FDOQ1877320

Authors: F. F. Voronov 

Publication date: 16 August 2004

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a local solution of the inverse problem of calculus of variations in terms of the identical vanishing of the variation of a functional on an extended space (with the number of independent variables increased by one), and explain its relation with the classical Helmholtz criterion using the de Rham complex on an infinite-dimensional space of fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308179

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse problem of the calculus of variationsHelmholtz criterion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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