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An axiomatic characterization of the poincare-cartan form for second order variational problems

II. Momentum Mappings And Invariants

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Masqué, J.M. (1985). An axiomatic characterization of the poincare-cartan form for second order variational problems. In: Doebner, HD., Hennig, JD. (eds) Differential Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1139. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0074577

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