The Variational Principle and natural transformations II. Time dependent theory

DOI10.1017/S0305004100059351zbMath0528.49027MaRDI QIDQ3310494

R. L. Schafir

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsHamiltonian vector fieldsinverse problem in the calculus of variationsnatural transformationscurl-free conditionssymmetrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Inverse problems involving ordinary differential equations (34A55) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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Cites Work

• Differential geometry and the calculus of variations
• The Variational Principle and natural transformations I. Autonomous dynamical systems