A geometrical version of the Helmholtz conditions in time-dependent Lagrangian dynamics
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Publication:3334664
DOI10.1088/0305-4470/17/7/011zbMath0545.58020OpenAlexW2050452010MaRDI QIDQ3334664
Mike Crampin, Geoff Prince, Gerard Thompson
Publication date: 1984
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/17/7/011
Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Lagrange's equations (70H03)
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