The inverse problem in the calculus of variations: new developments

DOI10.2478/CM-2021-0008MaRDI QIDQ2236376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thoan Do, G. E. Prince

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://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06771

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsexterior differential systemsHelmholtz conditionsinverse problemLagrangian system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06) Action-minimizing orbits and measures for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems; variational principles; degree-theoretic methods (37J51) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

Abstract: We deal with the problem of determining the existence and uniqueness of Lagrangians for systems of $n$ second order ordinary differential equations. A number of recent theorems are presented, using exterior differential systems theory (EDS). In particular, we indicate how to generalise Jesse Douglas's famous solution for $n=2$. We then examine a new class of solutions in arbitrary dimension $n$ and give some non-trivial examples in dimension 3

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