Differential geometric aspects of the Cartan form: Symmetry theory

DOI10.1063/1.527832zbMath0646.58033OpenAlexW2029125708WikidataQ115332035 ScholiaQ115332035MaRDI QIDQ3790363

David E. Betounes

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527832

zbMATH Keywords

symmetry groupjet bundleCartan formconservation laws for a Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Variational principles of physics (49S05) General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06)

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