The Hamilton-Cartan formalism for higher order conserved currents. I: Regular first order Lagrangians
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The Hamilton-Cartan formalism for higher order conserved currents. I: Regular first order Lagrangians
zbMATH Open document ID: 0537.58002
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4877(80)90089-0
published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics
publication date: 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The Hamilton-Cartan formalism for regular first order Lagrangian field theories is extended in a natural way to deal with conserved currents which depend on higher order derivatives of the field variables. As an application the sine-Gordon equation is briefly presented.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58A25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37J99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58A15
zbMATH DE Number: 3854038
zbMATH Keywords: Euler-Lagrange variational problem
zbMATH Keywords: Poisson bracket
zbMATH Keywords: sine-Gordon equation
author: William F. Shadwick
reviewed by: Mircea Puta
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0034-4877(80)90089-0
OpenAlex ID: W1564294794
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3854038