On the Hamiltonian structure of evolution equations

DOI10.1017/S0305004100057364zbMath0445.58012MaRDI QIDQ3889807

Peter J. Olver

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

variational problemKorteweg-de-Vries equationBenjamin-Bona-Mahoney equationdifferential complexes of forms on jetsHamiltonian formalism for studying evolution equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Differential complexes (58J10) Geometric quantization (53D50) Equations in function spaces; evolution equations (58D25)

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