AV-differential geometry and calculus of variations

2006/12/20 by Grabowska, Katarzyna, Urbanski, Pawel
#70G45 #70H03 #70H05 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/0612069

Abstract

The calculus of variations for lagrangians which are not functions on the tangent bundle, but sections certain affine bundles is developed. We follow a general approach to variational principles which admits boundary terms of variations.

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