On the Legendre transformation for a class of nonregular higher-order Lagrangian field theories

DOI10.1063/1.528925zbMath0703.58020MaRDI QIDQ3482579

Mauro Francaviglia, Marco Ferraris, Guido Magnano

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528925

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Legendre transformation; higher order Lagrangian field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70G75: Variational methods for problems in mechanics

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

58A20: Jets in global analysis

70S05: Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems

49S05: Variational principles of physics

70H50: Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

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