Formal integrability for the nonautonomous case of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2012.059MaRDI QIDQ352336zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Oana Constantinescu

Publication date 4 July 2013

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1716

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zbMATH Keywords

formal integrabilityHelmholtz conditionsLagrangian semisprayspartial differential operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Obstructions to integrability for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (nonintegrability criteria) (37J30) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Abstract: We address the integrability conditions of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for time-dependent SODE using the Spencer version of the Cartan-K"ahler theorem. We consider a linear partial differential operator $P$ given by the two Helmholtz conditions expressed in terms of semi-basic 1-forms and study its formal integrability. We prove that $P$ is involutive and there is only one obstruction for the formal integrability of this operator. The obstruction is expressed in terms of the curvature tensor $R$ of the induced nonlinear connection. We recover some of the classes of Lagrangian semisprays: flat semisprays, isotropic semisprays and arbitrary semisprays on 2-dimensional manifolds.

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