Almost every path structure is not variational

DOI10.1007/S10714-022-03006-2MaRDI QIDQ2098145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Boris Kruglikov, Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 17 November 2022

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15029

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationFinsler metricsgeodesicsinverse variational problemjet spaceKropina metricsmetrizationpath structureprojective structuresymmetry analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

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