Lagrangian mechanics without ordinary differential equations

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(06)80030-3MaRDI QIDQ2480643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. W. Patrick

Publication date 3 April 2008

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0510085

zbMATH Keywords

existenceinfinite-dimensional implicit function theoremMorse lemmauniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

Abstract: A variational proof is provided of the existence and uniqueness of evolutions of regular Lagrangian systems.

Review text

This article provides a direct variational proof of existence and uniqueness of the solution for a local boundary value problem, using a regularization procedure from [\textit{C. Cuell} and \textit{G. W. Patrick}, Discretizations of Lagrangian mechanics, in preparation] for a similar problem in the context of discrete Lagrangian systems. This procedure replaces the original problem by a variational problem which is regular under certain conditions. Then the infinite-dimensional Morse lemma and infinite-dimensional implicit function theorem give the result.

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