On the commutator of ${\mathcal{C}^{\infty}}$ -symmetries and the reduction of Euler–Lagrange equations

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/aab036zbMath1391.49018OpenAlexW3048513570MaRDI QIDQ4639426

Concepción Muriel, Peter J. Olver, Adrián Tonatiuh Ruiz

Publication date: 9 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aab036

zbMATH Keywords

variational problemLagrangianEuler-Lagrange equationcommutatorsolvability conditionvariational \(C^\infty\)-symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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