Book:Mariano Giaquinta/Calculus of Variations II: The Hamiltonian Formalism

Mariano Giaquinta and Stefan Hildebrandt: Calculus of Variations II: The Hamiltonian Formalism

Published $\text {2004}$, Springer - Verlag

ISBN 978-3540579618

Subject Matter

• Calculus of Variations

Contents

Part III. Canonical Formalism and Parametric Variational Problems

Chapter 7. Legendre Transformation, Hamiltonian Systems, Convexity, Field Theory

Chapter 8. Parametric Variational Integrals

Part IV. Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Partial Differential Equations of First Order

Chapter 9. Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Canonical Transformations

Chapter 10. Partial Differential Equations of First Order and Contact Transformations

A List of Examples

A Glimpse at the Literature

Bibliography

Subject Index