Griffiths, Phillip A. Exterior differential systems and the calculus of variations. (English) Zbl 0512.49003 Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 25. Boston - Basel - Stuttgart: Birkhäuser. IX, 335 p. DM 78.00 (1983). Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 8 ReviewsCited in 66 Documents MSC: 49-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control 49Q99 Manifolds and measure-geometric topics 58A15 Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) 58-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis 49Q20 Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting 58A17 Pfaffian systems Keywords:integral manifolds; algebraic ideal; canonical Pfaffian system; Euler- Lagrangian equations; Hamilton-Jacobi equation; problem of Lagrange PDFBibTeX XML