The Euler-Lagrange expression and degenerate lagrange densities

DOI10.1017/S1446788700011125zbMath0252.49029MaRDI QIDQ5665826

David Lovelock

Publication date: 1972

Published in: Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99)

Related Items (8)

Higher Euler operators and some of their applications ⋮ Tensorial Euler-Lagrange expressions and conservation laws ⋮ Integral formulae associated with non-parameter-invariant multiple integral problems of arbitrary order in the calculus of variations ⋮ Integral formulae associated with the Euler-Lagrange operators of multiple integral problems in the calculus of variations ⋮ Sufficiency conditions under which a Lagrangian is an ordinary divergence ⋮ The algebraic Rainich conditions ⋮ On the characterization of energy-momentum tensors ⋮ The uniqueness of the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations

Cites Work

• The null set of the Euler-Lagrange operator
• Variational problems involving combined tensor fields
• The uniqueness of the Einstein field equations in a foru-dimensional space
• Degenerate Lagrange densities involving geometric objects
• Divergence-free tensorial concomitants

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