scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1192297
This note contains a discussion of some results from the author's thesis [\textit{D. L. Temo Beko}, `On the generalization of the symplectic geometry of the multidimensional variational problem' (French), Thèse, Louvain-La Neuve (1977)] concerning the differential geometric formalism of some classes of multidimensional variational problems on differentiable manifolds. In this setting, the usual Hamilton-Jacobi equation is replaced by an ``exterior differential equation whose solution is an exterior differential form and is studied in terms of some ``exact spectral sequences. We give some more details: The largest part of the text contains an attempt to present in a succinct manner the rather complicated notations, definitions, local expressions and some properties of a variational problem \((V_n, \Omega_p)\), of order \(p\in \{0,1,\dots, n-1\}\), on a smooth \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(V_n\) and of an ``extremal, \(f:W_p\to V_n\), defined as an immersion of a compact \(p\)-dimensional manifold \(W_p\), with boundary \(\partial W_p\), for which the first variation vanishes. The paper contains also the statement of several results from the author's thesis, two of them (Theorems 3.3, 3.5) giving some partial answers to the author's ``conjecture stating (in the author's notations) the following: ``every point of the `phase manifold', \(E_*\), of a variational problem \((V_n, \Omega_p)\), \(p>0\), has an open neighborhood \(V\) on which there exists a \((p-1)\) exterior differential form \(\Sigma_{p-1}\) such that: \[ I_\Omega(F)= \int_F \widetilde{\Omega}= \int_{\partial F}\Sigma \] for any extremal \(F:W_p\to V\).
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