Higher-order Hamiltonian formalism in field theory

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/13/8/004zbMath0467.58013OpenAlexW2007964596MaRDI QIDQ3920335

José A. de Azcárraga, Victor Aldaya

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/13/8/004

zbMATH Keywords

Legendre transformationfield theoryHamiltonian formalism for higher order variational problems in several variableshigher order HamiltonianLagrangian on the k- jets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99)

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