Trivial Second-order Lagrangians in Classical Field Theory

DOI10.1002/(SICI)1521-3978(199912)47:9/10%3C913::AID-PROP913%3E3.0.CO;2-PMaRDI QIDQ4507562zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Radu Grigore

Publication date 8 October 2000

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9609199

zbMATH Keywords

second-order derivativeshyper-Jacobianstrivial second-order Lagrangians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Abstract: Trivial second-order Lagrangians are studied and a complete description of the dependence on the second-order derivatives is given. This extends previous work of Olver and others. In particular, this description involves some polynomial expressions called hyper-Jacobians. There exists some linear dependencies between these polynomials which are elucidated for the (second-order) hyper-Jacobians.

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