Exterior differential systems and the calculus of variations
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Publication:1839432
zbMath0512.49003MaRDI QIDQ1839432
Publication date: 1983
Published in: Progress in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Hamilton-Jacobi equationintegral manifoldsalgebraic idealcanonical Pfaffian systemEuler- Lagrangian equationsproblem of Lagrange
Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Pfaffian systems (58A17) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02) Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99)
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