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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.

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@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

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