Conformal identities for invariant second-order variational problems depending on a covariant vector field

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/10/8/014zbMath0379.49031OpenAlexW1981011110MaRDI QIDQ4159897

J. S. Blakeslee, John David Logan

Publication date: 1977

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/10/8/014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's principle (70H25) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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