Trivial lagrangians in field theory

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-305

  Krupka, Demeter ^a   Musilová, Jana ^b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY IN OPAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Horizontalization; Lagrange structures; Projectable forms; Trivial lagrangians; Variational sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032325111     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(98)00023-0     Document Type: Article

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