Lepage forms, closed 2-forms and second-order ordinary differential equations

DOI10.3103/S1066369X07120018zbMath1298.58004MaRDI QIDQ462551

Olga Krupková, Geoff Prince

Publication date: 21 October 2014

Published in: Russian Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3103/s1066369x07120018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

34A26: Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations

58A20: Jets in global analysis

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