Variational Principles For Second-order Differential Equations, Application Of The Spencer Theory Of

Joseph Grifone (Univ Paul Sabatier, France),Zoltan Muzsnay (Kossuth Lajos Univ., Hungary)

Variational Principles For Second-order Differential Equations, Application Of The Spencer Theory Of
Format
Hardback
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country
Singapore
Published
26 May 2000
Pages
228
ISBN
9789810237349

Variational Principles For Second-order Differential Equations, Application Of The Spencer Theory Of

Joseph Grifone (Univ Paul Sabatier, France),Zoltan Muzsnay (Kossuth Lajos Univ., Hungary)

The inverse problem of the calculus of variations was first studied by Helmholtz in 1887 and it is entirely solved for the differential operators, but only a few results are known in the more general case of differential equations. This work looks at second-order differential equations and asks if they can be written as Euler-Lagrangian equations. If the equations are quadratic, the problem reduces to the characterization of the connections which are Levi-Civita for some Riemann metric. To solve the inverse problem, the authors use the formal integrability theory of overdetermined partial differential systems in the Spencer-Quillen-Goldschmidt version. The main theorems of the book furnish a complete illustration of these techniques because all possible situations appear: involutivity, 2-acyclicity, prolongation, computation of Spencer cohomology, computation of the torsion, and more.

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