Contact symmetries and variational PDE's

DOI10.1007/s10440-008-9194-6zbMath1147.70009OpenAlexW2090442681MaRDI QIDQ941633

Demeter Krupka, Olga Krupková

Publication date: 2 September 2008

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-008-9194-6

zbMATH Keywords

Lepage formcontact idealEuler-Lagrange formHelmholtz form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65)

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