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On direct variational formulations for second order evolutionary equations. (English) Zbl 1280.47054

This paper is mainly concerned with a second order evolutionary operator. The main results establish necessary and sufficient conditions that an operator be potential with respect to a certain bilinear form. The proofs follow by standard analytic tools that exploit the properties of skew-symmetric operators. The abstract results are illustrated by a class of evolution partial differential equations with potentials depending on the time.

MSC:

47G40 Potential operators
70H03 Lagrange’s equations
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