Jacobi equation for field theories and a geometric variational description of dissipation

Abstract

In this paper we give a geometric description of the Jacobi equations associated to a first-order Lagrangian field theory using a prolongation of the Lagrangian $L$ on a $k$-cosymplectic formulation. Moreover, using an appropriate modification of the prolonged Lagrangian, we obtain a variational formulation of field theories with dissipation.