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Olver, Peter J.

Equivalence and the Cartan form. (English) Zbl 0794.49041

Acta Appl. Math. 31, No. 2, 99-136 (1993).
Summary: An investigation into the Cartan form and nondegeneracy conditions for field-theoretic Lagrangians based on the Cartan equivalence method is presented.

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MSC:

49Q20 Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting
70H99 Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

Keywords:

Cartan form; calculus of variations; nondegeneracy conditions
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\textit{P. J. Olver}, Acta Appl. Math. 31, No. 2, 99--136 (1993; Zbl 0794.49041)
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