On complexes related with calculus of variations

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 221-250

  Khudaverdian, Hovhannes M ^a,b   Voronov, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Cartan connection; Forms on supermanifolds; Infinite jet space; Lagrangians; Multidimensional paths; Variational complex; Variational derivatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036888188     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0393-0440(02)00075-X     Document Type: Article

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