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The Lagrangian formalism for tensor fields over differentiable manifolds with contravariant and covariant affine connections (whose components differ not only by sign) and metrics [$(\bar{L}_n,g)$-spaces] is considered. The functional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Manoff

This work contains an exposition of foundations of the variational calculus in fibered manifolds. The emphasis is laid on the geometric aspects of the theory. Especially functionals defined by real functions (Lagrange functions) or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Demeter Krupka

The purpose of this paper is to propose the implementation of some methods from algebraic geometry in the theory of gravitation, and more especially in the variational formalism. It has been assumed that the metric tensor depends on two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Dimitrov

Variational calculus on a vector bundle E equipped with a structure of a general algebroid is developed, together with the corresponding analogs of Euler-Lagrange equations. Constrained systems are introduced in the variational and in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Katarzyna Grabowska , Janusz Grabowski

The Riemannian geometry is one of the main theoretical pieces in Modern Mathematics and Physics. The study of Riemann Geometry in the relevant literature is performed by using a well defined analytical path. Usually it starts from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Juan Mendez

We discover a fundamental exterior differential system of Riemannian geometry; indeed, an intrinsic and invariant global system of differential forms of degree $n$ associated to any given oriented Riemannian manifold $M$ of dimension $n+1$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Rui Albuquerque

Lagrangian formalism is established for differential equations with special functions of mathematical physics as solutions. Formalism is based on either standard or non-standard Lagrangians. This work shows that the procedure of deriving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Zdzislaw Musielak , Niyousha Davachi , Marialis Rosario-Franco

We offer a theoretical mathematical background through Lagrangian optimization on the unit hyperspherical manifold and its tangential collection with application to the Transformer and its token space. Our methods are catered to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Andrew Gracyk

We consider in this paper an area functional defined on submanifolds of fixed degree immersed into a graded manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric. Since the expression of this area depends on the degree, not all variations are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Giovanna Citti , Gianmarco Giovannardi , Manuel Ritoré

The Lagrangian formalism is used to derive covariant equations that are suitable for use in continuously distributed matter in curved spacetime. Special attention is given to theoretical representation, in which the Lagrangian and its…

General Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Sergey G. Fedosin

The numerical solution of partial differential equations on high-dimensional domains gives rise to computationally challenging linear systems. When using standard discretization techniques, the size of the linear system grows exponentially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Daniel Kressner , Michael Steinlechner , Bart Vandereycken

In a space of 4-dimensions, I will examine constrained variational problems in which the Lagrangian, and constraint scalar density, are concomitants of a (pseudo-Riemannian) metric tensor and its first two derivatives. The Lagrange…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-15 Gregory W. Horndeski

We study problems of the calculus of variations and optimal control within the framework of time scales. Specifically, we obtain Euler-Lagrange type equations for both Lagrangians depending on higher order delta derivatives and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-30 Rui A. C. Ferreira

This paper presents a perturbation analysis framework for nonsmooth optimization on connected Riemannian manifolds to bridge the gap between the rapid development of algorithmic approaches and a robust theoretical foundation. Using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Yuexin Zhou , Chao Ding , Yangjing Zhang

This paper is concerned with analyzing a class of fractional calculus of variations problems and their associated Euler-Lagrange (fractional differential) equations. Unlike the existing fractional calculus of variations which is based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Xiaobing Feng , Mitchell Sutton

We develop in this paper a new framework for discrete calculus of variations when the actions have densities involving an arbitrary discretization operator. We deduce the discrete Euler-Lagrange equations for piecewise continuous critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Philippe Ryckelynck , Laurent Smoch

Tensor networks provide compact and scalable representations of high-dimensional data, enabling efficient computation in fields such as quantum physics, numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), and machine learning. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Julia Wei , Alec Dektor , Chungen Shen , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang

We give a proper fractional extension of the classical calculus of variations. Necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type for variational problems containing both classical and fractional derivatives are proved. The fundamental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Tatiana Odzijewicz , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper we investigate dual formulations for massive tensor fields. Usual procedure for construction of such dual formulations based on the use of first order parent Lagrangians in many cases turns out to be ambiguous. We propose to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Yu. M. Zinoviev

A mathematical complication due to an unnecessary formal assumption concerning the variational principle of general relativity theory, which apparently bothered Einstein and Hilbert, is shown and cleared up. Some historical confusion seems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-12 Peter Ostermann
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