The quantization of a fourth-order equation without a second-order Lagrangian

DOI10.1142/S1402925110001094MaRDI QIDQ2996755zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. C. Nucci, P. G. L. Leach

Publication date 3 May 2011

Published in Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/s1402925110001094

zbMATH Keywords

fourth-order ODEHamiltonianLagrangianLie symmetriesquantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14) Transformation and reduction of ordinary differential equations and systems, normal forms (34C20) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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