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