The Variational Principle and natural transformations I. Autonomous dynamical systems

DOI10.1017/S0305004100058990MaRDI QIDQ3959026zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors R. L. Schafir

Publication date 1981

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305004100058990

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawscurl-free conditionsHamiltonian vector fieldsinverse problem in the calculus of variationsnatural transformationssymmetrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems involving ordinary differential equations (34A55) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30)

Cited in

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• Helmholtz conditions, covariance, and invariance identities
• Variational principles for nonpotential operators
• The Variational Principle and natural transformations II. Time dependent theory
• The inverse problem of the calculus of variations applied to continuum physics

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