Lepage Equivalents of Second-Order Euler–Lagrange Forms and the Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations

DOI10.1142/S1402925109000194zbMATH Open1170.58006MaRDI QIDQ3395362FDOQ3395362

Authors: Dana Smetanová, Olga Rossi 

Publication date: 26 August 2009

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse problem of the calculus of variationsLepage formEuler-Lagrange formLepage equivalent of a LagrangianLepage equivalent of an Euler-Lagrange formsecond-order Euler-Lagrange equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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• Lagrangian and Hamiltonian duality
• Exactness of Lepage 2-forms and globally variational differential equations
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• The Lagrangian order-reduction theorem in field theories
• Lepage equivalents and the variational bicomplex
• The Cartan form and its generalizations in the calculus of variations
• Geometric integration by parts and Lepage equivalents
• On the closure property of Lepage equivalents of Lagrangians
• Lepage manifolds

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