Towards a geometrical understanding of Douglas's solution of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/10/2/005MaRDI QIDQ4290702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mike Crampin, Eduardo Martínez, G. B. Byrnes, G. E. Prince, W. Sarlet

Publication date 22 November 1995

Published in Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/43fb28132285a6bf3a5011b7ac297f7b1b6c4fa5

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemcalculus of variationsEuler-Lagrange equationsdifferential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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