Bundle-theoretic methods for higher-order variational calculus
Differential Geometry
2015-06-04 v3 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We present a geometric interpretation of the integration-by-parts formula on an arbitrary vector bundle. As an application we give a new geometric formulation of higher-order variational calculus.
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@article{arxiv.1306.3097,
title = {Bundle-theoretic methods for higher-order variational calculus},
author = {Michał Jóźwikowski and Mikołaj Rotkiewicz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3097},
year = {2015}
}
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