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Natural first order Lagrangians for immersions

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy

Abstract

We define natural first order Lagrangians for immersions of Riemannian manifolds and we prove a bijective correspondence between such Lagrangians and the symmetric functions on an open subset of m-dimensional Euclidean space.

Keywords

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natural Lagrangians, Riemannian immersions, jets

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Annales Polonici Mathematici
1998/69/3
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Pages:
207-215
Main language of publication
English
Received
1996-01-15
Accepted
1997-09-22
Published
1998
Exact and natural sciences