Helmholtz conditions and symmetries for the time dependent case of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2010.06.016zbMATH Open1200.58017arXiv0908.1631OpenAlexW1989523554MaRDI QIDQ1957175FDOQ1957175

Oana Constantinescu, Ioan Bucataru

Publication date: 24 September 2010

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a reformulation of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for time dependent systems of second order ordinary differential equations using the Fr"olicher-Nijenhuis theory on the first jet bundle, $J^{1}pi$. We prove that a system of time dependent SODE, identified with a semispray $S$, is Lagrangian if and only if a special class, $Lambd{a}_S^1(J^{1}pi)$, of semi-basic 1-forms is not empty. We provide global Helmholtz conditions to characterize the class $Lambd{a}_S^1(J^{1}pi)$ of semi-basic 1-forms. Each such class contains the Poincar'e-Cartan 1-form of some Lagrangian function. We prove that if there exists a semi-basic 1-form in $Lambd{a}_S^1(J^{1}pi)$, which is not a Poincar'e-Cartan 1-form, then it determines a dual symmetry and a first integral of the given system of SODE.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1631

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemfirst integraldual symmetryHelmholtz conditionssemi-basic forms[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Poincar%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD+Lemma&go=Go Poincar�� Lemma]

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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