Exterior Differential Systems and Euler-Lagrange Partial Differential Equations (Chicago Lectures in Mathematics)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780226077932
First sentence: In the classical calculus of variations, one studies functionals of the form FL(z) = L(x,z, z) dx, Rn, where x = (x1,...,xn), dx = dx1 ... dxn, z = z(x) C1( ) (for example), and the Lagrangian L = L(x,z,p) is a smooth function of x, z, and p = (p1,...,pn).