Variational problems with symmetries: a Pfaffian system approach

DOI10.1007/s10440-012-9720-4zbMath1310.58001OpenAlexW2083531260MaRDI QIDQ384079

Serena Sammarco, Paola Morando

Publication date: 25 November 2013

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-012-9720-4

zbMATH Keywords

variational problemsPfaffian systemsreduction by symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14) Pfaffian systems (58A17) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33)

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