The projective symplectic geometry of higher order variational problems: minimality conditions
Abstract
We associate curves of isotropic, Lagrangian and coisotropic subspaces to higher order, one parameter variational problems. Minimality and conjugacy properties of extremals are described in terms of these curves.
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