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Exterior Differential Systems and the Calculus of Variations (Paperback): P.A. Griffiths

Exterior Differential Systems and the Calculus of Variations (Paperback)

P.A. Griffiths

Series: Progress in Mathematics, 25

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15 0. PRELIMINARIES a) Notations from Manifold Theory b) The Language of Jet Manifolds c) Frame Manifolds d) Differentia! Ideals e) Exterior Differential Systems EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS FOR DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS ~liTH ONE I. 32 INDEPENDENT VARIABLE a) Setting up the Problem; Classical Examples b) Variational Equations for Integral Manifolds of Differential Systems c) Differential Systems in Good Form; the Derived Flag, Cauchy Characteristics, and Prolongation of Exterior Differential Systems d) Derivation of the Euler-Lagrange Equations; Examples e) The Euler-Lagrange Differential System; Non-Degenerate Variational Problems; Examples FIRST INTEGRALS OF THE EULER-LAGRANGE SYSTEM; NOETHER'S II. 1D7 THEOREM AND EXAMPLES a) First Integrals and Noether's Theorem; Some Classical Examples; Variational Problems Algebraically Integrable by Quadratures b) Investigation of the Euler-Lagrange System for Some Differential-Geometric Variational Pro~lems: 2 i) ( K ds for Plane Curves; i i) Affine Arclength; 2 iii) f K ds for Space Curves; and iv) Delauney Problem. II I. EULER EQUATIONS FOR VARIATIONAL PROBLEfiJS IN HOMOGENEOUS SPACES 161 a) Derivation of the Equations: i) Motivation; i i) Review of the Classical Case; iii) the Genera 1 Euler Equations 2 K /2 ds b) Examples: i) the Euler Equations Associated to f for lEn; but for Curves in i i) Some Problems as in i) sn; Non- Curves in iii) Euler Equations Associated to degenerate Ruled Surfaces IV.

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Imprint: Birkhauser Boston
Country of origin: United States
Series: Progress in Mathematics, 25
Release date: August 1990
First published: 1983
Authors: P.A. Griffiths
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 978-0-8176-3103-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Differential & Riemannian geometry
LSN: 0-8176-3103-8
Barcode: 9780817631031

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