On the Existence of Global Variational Principles

DOI10.2307/2374195zbMath0454.58021OpenAlexW2040941018MaRDI QIDQ3902218

Publication date: 1980

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mathsci_facpub/7

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange operator Euler-Lagrange equation of a variational problem inverse problem in calculus of variations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99) Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E99) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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