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

DOI10.1142/S1402925109000194MaRDI QIDQ3395362zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dana Smetanová, Olga Rossi

Publication date 26 August 2009

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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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