Equivalence and the Cartan form

DOI10.1007/BF00990539zbMath0794.49041MaRDI QIDQ2366602

Peter J. Olver

Publication date: 30 August 1993

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsCartan formnondegeneracy conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99)

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$$D$$ -modules, contact valued calculus and Poincare-Cartan form ⋮ Variational sequences, representation sequences and applications in physics ⋮ The contact ideal ⋮ I. GM-sets applied to Lie theory ⋮ Lepage equivalents and the variational bicomplex ⋮ Lepage Manifolds ⋮ Jets and the variational calculus ⋮ THE CARTAN FORM AND ITS GENERALIZATIONS IN THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS ⋮ Homotopy operators for the variational bicomplex, representations of the Euler-Lagrange complex, and the Helmholtz-Sonin conditions

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