The Hamilton-Cartan formalism in the calculus of variations

Hubert Goldschmidt; Shlomo Sternberg

Annales de l'institut Fourier (1973)

  • Volume: 23, Issue: 1, page 203-267
  • ISSN: 0373-0956

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We give an exposition of the calculus of variations in several variables. The introduction of a linear differential form studied by Cartan makes possible an invariant treatment of the Hamiltonian formalism. Noether’s theorem, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the second variation are discussed and a Poisson bracket is defined.

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Goldschmidt, Hubert, and Sternberg, Shlomo. "The Hamilton-Cartan formalism in the calculus of variations." Annales de l'institut Fourier 23.1 (1973): 203-267. <http://eudml.org/doc/74112>.

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Citations in EuDML Documents

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  1. Hubert Goldschmidt, Le formalisme de Hamilton-Cartan en calcul des variations
  2. A. Echeverría Enríquez, M. C. Muñoz Lecanda, Variational calculus in several variables : a hamiltonian approach
  3. L. Mangiarotti, M. Modugno, Some results on the calculus of variations on jet spaces
  4. Mauro Francaviglia, Demeter Krupka, The hamiltonian formalism in higher order variational problems
  5. Emanuel López, Alberto Molgado, José A. Vallejo, The principle of stationary action in the calculus of variations
  6. Ivan Kolář, Fundamental vector fields on associated fiber bundles
  7. Jordi Gaset, Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez, Narciso Román-Roy, Variational principles and symmetries on fibered multisymplectic manifolds
  8. Demeter Krupka, A map associated to the Lepagian forms on the calculus of variations in fibred manifolds
  9. Michel Bauderon, Le problème inverse du calcul des variations
  10. Josef Janyška, On the Lie algebra of vertical prolongation operators

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