We demonstrate that the known off-shell nilpotent (i.e. s(a)b = 0) and anticommuting (i.e. sbsab + sabsb = 0) Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) transformations (sb) and anti-BRST transformations (sab) are the symmetry transformations of the appropriate Lagrangian densities of a four (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D) free Abelian 2-form gauge theory which do not explicitly incorporate a very specific cons...

Physical and geometric based variational techniques for surface construction have been shown to be advanced methods for designing high quality surfaces in the fields of CAD and CAGD. In this paper, we derive an Euler-Lagrange equation from a geometric invariant curvature integral functional–the integral about the mean curvature gradient. Using this Euler-Lagrange equation, we construct a sixtho...

-Using the He’s variational iteration method, it is possible to find the exact solutions or better approximate solutions of the partial differential equations. In this method, a correction functional is constructed by a general Lagrange multiplier, which can be identified via variational theory. In this paper, this method is used for solving a nonlinear partial differential equation, a three-di...

The problem of minimal distortion bending of smooth compact embedded connected Riemannian n-manifolds M and N without boundary is made precise by defining a deformation energy functional Φ on the set of diffeomorphisms Diff(M,N). We derive the Euler-Lagrange equation for Φ and determine smooth minimizers of Φ in case M and N are simple closed curves. MSC 2000 Classification: 58E99

Under the bounded slope condition on the boundary values of a minimization problem for a functional of the gradient of u, we show that a continuous minimizer w is, in fact, Lipschitzian. An application of this result to prove the validity of the Euler Lagrange equation for w is presented.

I have used a novel approach based upon Hamiltonian mechanics to derive new equations for nearly geostrophic motion in a shallow homogeneous fluid. The equations have the same order accuracy as (say) the quasigeostrophic equations, but they allow order-one variations in the depth and Coriolis parameter. My equations exactly conserve proper analogues of the energy and potential vorticity, and th...

In a recent paper [7] we interpreted configurational forces as necessary and sufficient dissipative mechanisms such that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations are satisfied. We now extend this argument for a dynamic elastic medium, and show that the energy flux obtained from the dynamic J integral ensures that the equations of motion hold throughout the body.

A general model of solids with vectorial microstructures is introduced. The field equationsare the obtained as Euler-Lagrange equations of a suitable energetic functional. The Cosserat model is encompassed in this model and it can be used to study the behaviour of granular media. A first approach to this problem deals with a two dimensional model, since in such a case the field equations have a...