scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1933856

zbMath1024.58006arXivmath/0207039MaRDI QIDQ4405831

Robert L. Bryant, Daniel A. Grossman, Phillip A. Griffiths

Publication date: 24 June 2003

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207039

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zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldLagrangianconformal groupEuler-Lagrange equationPoincaré-Cartan formmethod of equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02)

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