Semi-basic 1-forms and Helmholtz conditions for the inverse problem of the calculus of variations

DOI10.3934/JGM.2009.1.159MaRDI QIDQ2379752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matias F. Dahl, Ioan Bucataru

Publication date 22 March 2010

Published in Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1169

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemFinsler metrizabilityHelmholtz conditionsprojective metrizabilityPoincaré-Cartan 1-form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Abstract: We use Fr"olicher-Nijenhuis theory to obtain global Helmholtz conditions, expressed in terms of a semi-basic 1-form, that characterize when a semispray is locally Lagrangian. We also discuss the relation between these Helmholtz conditions and their classic formulation written using a multiplier matrix. When the semi-basic 1-form is 1-homogeneous (0-homogeneous) we show that two (one) of the Helmholtz conditions are consequences of the other ones. These two special cases correspond to two inverse problems in the calculus of variation: Finsler metrizability for a spray, and projective metrizability for a spray.

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