Variational Principles for multisymplectic second-order classical field theories
Mathematical Physics
2015-09-28 v2 math.MP
Abstract
We state a unified geometrical version of the variational principles for second-order classical field theories. The standard Lagrangian and Hamiltonian variational principles and the corresponding field equations are recovered from this unified framework.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.1451,
title = {Variational Principles for multisymplectic second-order classical field theories},
author = {Pedro Daniel Prieto-Martínez and Narciso Román-Roy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.1451},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pp. Minor corrections. Clarifications and comments have been added. Two new sections ("Introduction" and "The higher-order case") have been added. Bibliography enlarged