Introduction to Global Variational Geometry

DOI10.2991/978-94-6239-073-7zbMath1310.49001OpenAlexW655569131MaRDI QIDQ5414721

Demeter Krupka

Publication date: 7 May 2014

Published in: Atlantis Studies in Variational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-073-7

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlesvariational structuresfibered manifoldsjet prolongationsvariational sequencesnatural Lagrange structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02)

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