Variational techniques on classes of Lagrangians

DOI10.1007/BF00670363MaRDI QIDQ1098658zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors L. W. Churchill

Publication date 1987

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670363

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Maxwell equationsscalar density Lagrangrianstransformation lawvector potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Classical field theories (70Sxx) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Review text

We present canonical procedures for the manipulation of whole classes of Lagrangian that share the same transformation law and functional dependence but are otherwise arbitrary in functional form, and for the derivation therefrom of generalized conserved quantities. The techniques are demonstrated on the class of scalar density Lagrangrians \(L=L_ G+L_{EM}\), where \(L_ G\) is a function of the metric and its first and second derivatives and \(L_{EM}\) is a function of the metric and a vector potential and its first derivative, which generate the Einstein- Maxwell equations (without cosmological constant). These procedures should be of interest to those studying alternate formulations of general relativity, those deriving new field theories, and others working with general of modified Lagrangians.

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