Invariant higher-order variational problems

DOI10.1007/s00220-011-1313-yzbMath1279.58009arXiv1012.5060MaRDI QIDQ661321

Darryl D. Holm, David M. Meier, Tudor S. Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz, François-Xavier Vialard

Publication date: 10 February 2012

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5060

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

58E30: Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

70H03: Lagrange's equations

Uses Software

• LDDMM
• SciPy