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The Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations [electronic resource] : Local and Global Theory / edited by Dmitry V. Zenkov.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Atlantis Studies in Variational Geometry ; 2Publisher: Paris : Atlantis Press : Imprint: Atlantis Press, 2015Edition: 1st ed. 2015Description: IX, 289 p. 3 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789462391093
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 515.64 23
LOC classification:
  • QA315-316
  • QA402.3
  • QA402.5-QA402.6
Online resources:
Contents:
The Helmholtz Conditions and the Method of Controlled Lagrangians -- The Sonin–Douglas Problem -- Inverse Variational Problem and Symmetry in Action: The Relativistic Third Order Dynamics -- Variational Principles for Immersed Submanifolds -- Source Forms and their Variational Completions -- First-Order Variational Sequences in Field Theory.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: The aim of the present book is to give a systematic treatment of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, i.e. how to recognize whether a system of differential equations can be treated as a system for extremals of a variational functional (the Euler-Lagrange equations), using contemporary geometric methods. Selected applications in geometry, physics, optimal control, and general relativity are also considered. The book includes the following chapters: - Helmholtz conditions and the method of controlled Lagrangians (Bloch, Krupka, Zenkov) - The Sonin-Douglas's problem (Krupka) - Inverse variational problem and symmetry in action: The Ostrogradskyj relativistic third order dynamics (Matsyuk.) - Source forms and their variational completion (Voicu) - First-order variational sequences and the inverse problem of the calculus of variations (Urban, Volna) - The inverse problem of the calculus of variations on Grassmann fibrations (Urban).
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The Helmholtz Conditions and the Method of Controlled Lagrangians -- The Sonin–Douglas Problem -- Inverse Variational Problem and Symmetry in Action: The Relativistic Third Order Dynamics -- Variational Principles for Immersed Submanifolds -- Source Forms and their Variational Completions -- First-Order Variational Sequences in Field Theory.

The aim of the present book is to give a systematic treatment of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, i.e. how to recognize whether a system of differential equations can be treated as a system for extremals of a variational functional (the Euler-Lagrange equations), using contemporary geometric methods. Selected applications in geometry, physics, optimal control, and general relativity are also considered. The book includes the following chapters: - Helmholtz conditions and the method of controlled Lagrangians (Bloch, Krupka, Zenkov) - The Sonin-Douglas's problem (Krupka) - Inverse variational problem and symmetry in action: The Ostrogradskyj relativistic third order dynamics (Matsyuk.) - Source forms and their variational completion (Voicu) - First-order variational sequences and the inverse problem of the calculus of variations (Urban, Volna) - The inverse problem of the calculus of variations on Grassmann fibrations (Urban).

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