Geometric aspects of higher order variational principles on submanifolds

DOI10.1007/S10440-008-9190-XMaRDI QIDQ941629zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gianni Manno, Raffaele Vitolo

Publication date 2 September 2008

Published in Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602127

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsdifferential formsjets of submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E99) Differential complexes (58J10)

Abstract: The geometry of jets of submanifolds is studied, with special interest in the relationship with the calculus of variations. A new intrinsic geometric formulation of the variational problem on jets of submanifolds is given. Working examples are provided.

Review text

The present paper is devoted to the calculus of variations on the space of \(r\)-th order jets of submanifolds. The bundle of truncated total derivatives is used to represent Lagrangians, Euler-Lagrange and Helmholtz morphisms. Using such a point of view, a geometric (i.e., coordinate-free) formulation of variational problems on jets of submanifolds is introduced. The theory is illustrated by two examples: the minimal submanifolds equation and the equation of relativistic particle motion.

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