Natural first order Lagrangians for immersions

• Autorzy: Jerzy J. Konderak
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

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.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

natural Lagrangians; Riemannian immersions; jets

Kategorie tematyczne

• 58D10: Spaces of imbeddings and immersions
• 58E30: Variational principles

• Wydawca: Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Annales Polonici Mathematici
• Rocznik: 1998
• Tom: 69
• Numer: 3
• Strony: 207-215

Daty

wydano

1998

otrzymano

1996-01-15

poprawiono

1997-09-22

poprawiono

1998-03-09

Twórcy

autor

Jerzy J. Konderak

• Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy

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