The inverse problem in the calculus of variations and the geometry of the tangent bundle

DOI10.1016/0370-1573(90)90137-QzbMATH Open1211.58008MaRDI QIDQ535913FDOQ535913

Authors: G. Lo Vecchio, Giuseppe Marmo, Giuseppe Morandi, Carlo Ferrario, Claudio Rubano 

Publication date: 15 May 2011

Published in: Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30)

Cites Work

• Conservation laws and discrete symmetries in classical mechanics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Sur une generalisation des equations lagrangiennes permettant une extension de la transformation KS
• Invariance and conservation laws for Lagrangian systems with one degree of freedom
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Canonical transformations and the equivalence problem
• Evading the inverse problem for second-order ordinary differential equations by using additional variables
• An inverse problem for multidimensional first-order systems
• Lagrangians for spherically symmetric potentials
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Symmetries, first integrals, and the inverse problem of Lagrangian mechanics. II
• Symmetries, first integrals, and the inverse problem of Lagrangian mechanics. II
• Some recent results on symmetries of Lagrangian systems re-examined
• On the inverse problem of the calculus of variations
• Inverse problem in classical mechanics: Dissipative systems
• Espaces variationnels et mécanique
• Structure presque tangente et connexions. I
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The Helmholtz conditions revisited. A new approach to the inverse problem of Lagrangian dynamics
• On the differential geometry of the Euler-Lagrange equations, and the inverse problem of Lagrangian dynamics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Integrals of nonlinear equations of evolution and solitary waves
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Symmetries of Lagrangians and of their equations of motion
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Complex analytic coordinates in almost complex manifolds
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Periodic solutions of the KdV equation
• Integrable almost tangent structures
• Affine bundles and integrable almost tangent structures
• A global version of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Extension of Noether's theorem to constrained non-conservative dynamical systems
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Tangent bundle geometry Lagrangian dynamics
• Higher-order differential equations and higher-order lagrangian mechanics
• The range of application of the lagrange formalism — I
• Generalizations of Noether’s Theorem in Classical Mechanics
• Toward a classification of dynamical symmetries in classical mechanics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Symplectic manifolds with Lagrangian fibration
• Invariant variation problems
• Non-Noether constants of motion
• Equivalent Lagrangians: Multidimensional case
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On the inversion of Noether's theorem in the Lagrangian formalism
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Modifying Lax equations and the second Hamiltonian structure
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Poisson maps and canonoid transformations for time-dependent Hamiltonian systems
• On the symmetries and invariants of the harmonic oscillator
• Pseudo-symmetries, Noether's theorem and the adjoint equation
• On the inverse problem of the calculus of variations in field theory
• Jet fields, connections and second-order differential equations
• Dynamical symmetries: An approach to Jacobi fields and to constants of geodesic motion
• New classes of conversed quantities associated with non-Noether symmetries
• A geometrical version of the Helmholtz conditions in time-dependent Lagrangian dynamics
• Natural variational principles on Riemannian manifolds
• On Horizontal Distributions on the Tangent Bundle of a Differentiable Manifold
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Dynamical symmetries of the geodesic equation
• Helmholtz conditions, covariance, and invariance identities
• Separability of completely integrable dynamical systems admitting alternative Lagrangian descriptions
• Classical mechanics: Inverse problem and symmetries
• Composite variational principles, added variables, and constants of motion
• Variational techniques on classes of Lagrangians
• Time-dependent linear systems derivable from a variational principle
• Quadratic integrals for linear nonconservative systems and their connection with the inverse problem of Lagrangian dynamics
• Equations of motion, commutation relations and ambiguities in the Lagrangian formalism
• Cohomologie 1-différentiable des algèbres de Lie attachees à une variété symplectique ou de contact
• Constants of the motion in Lagrangian mechanics
• On some conservation laws of conservative and non-conservative dynamic systems
• Generalized Skyrme model on higher-dimensional Riemannian manifolds
• The Variational Principle and natural transformations II. Time dependent theory
• A new look at second-order equations and Lagrangian mechanics
• Reflections on the symmetry-conservation law duality and the Runge-Lenz vector
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• When does the motion of test particles determine the metric tensor?
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Symmetries and the inverse problem of Lagrangian dynamics for linear systems
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• First-order equivalent Lagrangians and conservation laws
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Generalising gauge variance for spherically symmetric potentials
• A complete classification of dynamical symmetries in classical mechanics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Geometric theory of the equivalence of Lagrangians for constrained systems
• On the generation of equivalent Hamiltonians
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Symmetry transformations, isovectors, and conservation laws
• Dynamical symmetries, first integrals and the inverse problem of Lagrangian dynamics
• Lie and Noether symmetries and a result of Logan
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Canonoid transformations and constants of motion
• Second-order equation fields and the inverse problem of Lagrangian dynamics
• Second-order differential equations and non-conservative Lagrangian mechanics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Differential geometric aspects of the Cartan form: Symmetry theory
• Some remarks on the Lie group of point transformations for the harmonic oscillator
• Invariant derivation of the Euler-Lagrange equation
• A separability theorem for dynamical systems admitting alternative Lagrangian descriptions
• A general setting for reduction of dynamical systems
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Higher-order Noether symmetries and constants of the motion

Cited In (84)

• The inverse problem within free electrodynamics and the coisotropic embedding theorem
• On the geodesic form of second-order dynamic equations
• Continuous integrable systems with multi-Poisson brackets
• Bound states of Newton's equivalent finite square well
• Evolutionary equations and constraints: Maxwell equations
• The inverse problem for a class of implicit differential equations and the coisotropic embedding theorem
• A case study of separability of second-order differential equations
• Monotone metric tensors in quantum information geometry
• Noether-symmetry analysis using alternative Lagrangian representations
• The geometry of the solution space of first order Hamiltonian field theories. I: From particle dynamics to free electrodynamics
• Nöther’s Theorem and the Lie Symmetries in the Goodwin-Model
• Symmetries and reduction Part II — Lagrangian and Hamilton–Jacobi picture
• Lagrangian description of Heisenberg and Landau-von Neumann equations of motion
• A Hamilton–Jacobi formalism for higher order implicit Lagrangians
• ALTERNATIVE LINEAR STRUCTURES FOR CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM SYSTEMS
• A generalization of Szebehely's inverse problem of dynamics
• Generalized Helmholtz conditions for non-conservative Lagrangian systems
• A new look at relativity transformations
• Adiabatic dynamics of one-dimensional classical Hamiltonian dissipative systems
• Stratified manifold of quantum states, actions of the complex special linear group
• \(f(R)\) theories
• The inverse problem for Lagrangian systems with certain non-conservative forces
• Riemannian geometry of two families of tangent Lie groups
• Dynamical symmetries, bi-Hamiltonian structures, and superintegrable \(n=2\) systems.
• On the Riemannian geometry of tangent Lie groups
• Bihamiltonian quantum systems and Weyl quantization.
• Generalized potential functions in differential geometry and information geometry
• Thirty years of the inverse problem in the calculus of variations
• Addressing the missing matter problem in galaxies through a new fundamental gravitational radius
• Lagrangian constraints and gauge symmetries
• Symmetries and the explanation of conservation laws in the light of the inverse problem in Lagrangian mechanics
• Finsler metrizable isotropic sprays and Hilbert's fourth problem
• GEOMETRIC HAMILTON–JACOBI THEORY
• Koopman operator method for solution of generalized aggregate data inverse problems
• Contact manifolds and dissipation, classical and quantum
• Born sigma-models for para-Hermitian manifolds and generalized T-duality
• An integrable three-particle system
• Second order Hamiltonian vector fields on tangent bundles
• The second Noether theorem in the formalism of jet-bundles: Symmetries and degeneration
• Derivations of differential forms along the tangent bundle projection. II
• Computer algebra solution of the inverse problem in the calculus of variations
• Geometrical foundations of Lagrangian supermechanics and supersymmetry
• Constraints in Hamiltonian time-dependent mechanics.
• GEOMETRICAL ASPECTS OF MIXED TORSIONLESS TENSOR FIELDS
• Alternative Lagrangians for central potentials
• Hamiltonian formulation and action principle for the Lorentz-Dirac system
• Coupling parameters and the form of the potential via Noether symmetry
• Geometric characterization of separable second-order differential equations
• On the relation between geometrical quantum mechanics and information geometry
• Algebroid structures on para-Hermitian manifolds
• Variational principles for nonpotential operators
• ALTERNATIVE ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES FROM BI-HAMILTONIAN QUANTUM SYSTEMS
• Completely integrable bi-Hamiltonian systems
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Uniqueness of Galilean conformal electrodynamics and its dynamical structure
• Time-dependent Lagrangian systems: A geometric approach to the theory of systems with constraints
• Superintegrability of the Calogero–Moser system: Constants of motion, master symmetries, and time-dependent symmetries
• THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE–TIME: RELATIVITY GROUPS
• Lax formalism for a family of integrable Toda-related n-particle systems
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF QUANTUM INTEGRABILITY
• Sprays metrizable by Finsler functions of constant flag curvature
• The inverse problem in the calculus of variations: new developments
• On the inverse problem with symmetries, and the appearance of cohomologies in classical Lagrangian dynamics
• Geometric description of time-dependent finite-dimensional mechanical systems
• On unifying concepts for trajectory-based slow invariant attracting manifold computation in kinetic multiscale models
• Inverse variational problem for nonstandard Lagrangians
• New progress in the inverse problem in the calculus of variations
• Helmholtz conditions and symmetries for the time dependent case of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations
• Hamiltonian time-dependent mechanics
• Para‐Hermitian Geometry, Dualities and Generalized Flux Backgrounds
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Integrable three-particle systems, hidden symmetries and deformations of the Calogero–Moser system
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Classical dynamics, alternative carrier spaces and group-valued constants of motion
• Finite Euler hierarchies and integrable universal equations.
• Hamilton-Jacobi approach to potential functions in information geometry
• Algebraic differential calculus for gauge theories.
• Superintegrable n=2 systems, quadratic constants of motion, and potentials of Drach
• REDUCTION PROCEDURES IN CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
• Newton-equivalent Hamiltonians for the harmonic oscillator
• Differential calculus on manifolds with boundary applications
• Covariant Jacobi brackets for test particles
• Field theories on null manifolds

This page was built for publication: The inverse problem in the calculus of variations and the geometry of the tangent bundle

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q535913)