Sufficiency conditions under which a Lagrangian is an ordinary divergence

DOI10.1007/BF01836551zbMath0311.49030MaRDI QIDQ1219469

Gregory Walter Horndeski

Publication date: 1975

Published in: Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/136512

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical differential geometry (53A99) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX)

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Junction conditions in a general field theory ⋮ Variational principles for nonpotential operators

Cites Work

• Integral formulae associated with the Euler-Lagrange operators of multiple integral problems in the calculus of variations
• On the Nonexistence of a Class of Static Einstein Spaces Asymptotic at Infinity to a Space of Constant Curvature
• The Euler-Lagrange expression and degenerate lagrange densities
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