COHOMOLOGY OF LAGRANGE COMPLEXES INVARIANT UNDER PSEUDOGROUPS OF LOCAL TRANSFORMATIONS
2007 ◽
Vol 04
(04)
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pp. 669-705
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Keyword(s):
The inverse problem of the Calculus of Variations for Lagrangians and Euler–Lagrange equations invariant under a pseudogroup [Formula: see text] of local transformations of the base manifold is considered. Exploiting some ideas of Krupka, a theorem is proved showing that, if the configuration space consists of sections of tensor bundles or of local maps of a manifold into another, then such inverse problem is solvable whenever a certain cohomology class of [Formula: see text]-invariant forms on the configuration space is vanishing. In addition, for a few pseudogroups, the cohomology groups considered in the main result are explicitly determined in terms of the de Rham cohomology of the configuration space.