Bundle-theoretic methods for higher-order variational calculus

DOI10.3934/jgm.2014.6.99zbMath1308.58002arXiv1306.3097OpenAlexW2003279494MaRDI QIDQ2514328

Mikołaj Rotkiewicz, Michał Jóźwikowski

Publication date: 3 February 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3097

zbMATH Keywords

variational calculusintegration by partsgeometric mechanicsgraded bundleshigher tangent bundleshigher-order Euler-Lagrange equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H50)

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