Budochkina, S. A.; Savchin, V. M. On direct variational formulations for second order evolutionary equations. (English) Zbl 1280.47054 Eurasian Math. J. 3, No. 4, 23-34 (2012). 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. Reviewer: Teodora-Liliana Rădulescu (Craiova) Cited in 3 Documents MSC: 47G40 Potential operators 70H03 Lagrange’s equations Keywords:potential operator; Gâteaux derivative; Euler-Lagrange equations PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{S. A. Budochkina} and \textit{V. M. Savchin}, Eurasian Math. J. 3, No. 4, 23--34 (2012; Zbl 1280.47054) Full Text: MNR