The Geometry of Higher-Order Lagrange Spaces: Applications to Mechanics and Physics / Edition 1

by R. Miron

Overview

This monograph is devoted to the problem of the geometrizing of Lagrangians which depend on higher-order accelerations.
It presents a construction of the geometry of the total space of the bundle of the accelerations of order k>=1. A geometrical study of the notion of the higher-order Lagrange space is conducted, and the old problem of prolongation of Riemannian spaces to k-osculator manifolds is solved. Also, the geometrical ground for variational calculus on the integral of actions involving higher-order Lagrangians is dealt with. Applications to higher-order analytical mechanics and theoretical physics are included as well.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to scientists whose work involves differential geometry, mechanics of particles and systems, calculus of variation and optimal control, optimization, optics, electromagnetic theory, and biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792343936
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	01/31/1997
Series:	Fundamental Theories of Physics , #82
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Preface. 1. Lagrange Spaces of Order 1. 2. The Geometry of 2-Osculator Bundle. 3. N-Linear Connections. 4. Lagrangians of Second Order. Variational Problem. Nöther Type Theorems. 5. Second Order Lagrange Spaces. 6. Geometry of the k-Osculator Bundle. 7. Linear Connections of OsckM. 8. Lagrangians of Order k. Applications to Higher-Order Analytical Mechanics. 9. Prolongation of the Riemannian, Finslerian and Lagrangian Structures to the k-Osculator Bundle. 10. Higher Order Lagrange Spaces. 11. Subspaces in Higher Order Lagrange Spaces. 12. Gauge Theory in the Higher Order Lagrange Spaces. References. Index.