Variational equations and symmetries in the Lagrangian formalism

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/28/10/020MaRDI QIDQ4845700zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Radu Grigore

Publication date 17 September 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411141

zbMATH Keywords

scalar fieldpolynomial structurePoincaré invarianceAnderson-Duchamp-Krupka equationsuniversal invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrange's equations (70H03) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33)

Abstract: Symmetries in the Lagrangian formalism of arbitrary order are analysed with the help of the so-called Anderson-Duchamp-Krupka equations. For the case of second order equations and a scalar field we establish a polynomial structure in the second order derivatives. This structure can be used to make more precise the form of a general symmetry. As an illustration we analyse the case of Lagrangian equations with Poincar'e invariance or with universal invariance.

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