Variations, geometry and physics : in honour of Demeter Krupka's sixty-fifth birthday / Olga Krupková and David Saunders, [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krupka, D.

Krupková, Olga, 1960-

Saunders, D. J., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calculus of variations.

Global analysis (Mathematics).

Mathematical physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a collection of survey articles in a broad field of the geometrical theory of the calculus of variations and its applications in analysis, geometry and physics. It is a commemorative volume to celebrate the sixty-fifth birthday of Professor Krupa, one of the founders of modern geometric variational theory, and a major contributor to this topic and its applications over the past thirty-five years. All the authors invited to contribute to this volume have established high reputations in their field. The book will exclusively provide a variety of important results, techniques and applications that are usually available only by consulting original papers in many different journals. It will be of interest to researchers in variational calculus, mathematical physics and the other related areas of differential equations, natural operators and geometric structures. Also, it will become an important source of current research for doctoral students and postdoctorals in these fields.

Contents:

pt. I. Variational principles on jet bundles

pt. II. Natural bundles and differential invariants

pt. III. Differential equations and geometrical structures

pt. IV. Appendix.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61324-186-0

OCLC:

923661919