Variationally trivial lagrangians and locally variational differential equations of arbitrary order

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 79-105

  Grigore, Dan Radu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Differential equations; Lagrangian formalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032623134     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(98)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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