Ostrohrads'kyi Formalism for Singular Lagrangians with Higher Derivatives

• Datum: 2001
• Hauptverfasser: Nesterenko, V. V., Нестеренко, В. В.
• Format: Artikel
• Sprache: Russisch; Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine 2001
• Online Zugang: https://umj.imath.kiev.ua/index.php/umj/article/view/4323
• Назва журналу: Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal

We generalize the Ostrohrads'kyi method for the construction of the Hamiltonian description of a nondegenerate (regular) variational problem of arbitrary order to the case of degenerate (singular) Lagrangians. These Lagrangians are of major interest in the contemporary theory of elementary...