Generalized Jacobi equations and the curvature of variational principles
DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00042-4zbMath0912.70014MaRDI QIDQ4378499
Mauro Francaviglia, Biagio Casciaro
Publication date: 25 May 1999
Published in: Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)
Euler-Lagrange equations; second variation; Lagrangian; first-order deformation; fiber manifolds; curvature tensors; generalized Bianchi identities; second-order deformation; generalized harmonic Lagrangian; second-order variational principles
53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics
70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics
70H30: Other variational principles in mechanics
49S05: Variational principles of physics
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