Jets and the variational calculus

DOI10.2478/CM-2021-0004MaRDI QIDQ2236374zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David J. Saunders

Publication date 22 October 2021

Published in Communications in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2478/cm-2021-0004

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsjets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets in global analysis (58A20) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Review text

The author reviews the approach to the calculus of variations using Ehresmann's theory of jets. It describes different types of jet manifolds, different types of variational problems and different cohomological structures associated with such problems.

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