Book:Mariano Giaquinta/Calculus of Variations II: The Hamiltonian Formalism

Subject Matter

 * Calculus of Variations

Contents
Part III. Canonical Formalism and Parametric Variational Problems


 * Chapter 7. Legendre Transformation, Hamiltonian Systems, Convexity, Field Theory


 * Chapter 8. Parametric Variational Integrals

Part IV. Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Partial Differential Equations of First Order


 * Chapter 9. Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Canonical Transformations


 * Chapter 10. Partial Differential Equations of First Order and Contact Transformations

A List of Examples

A Glimpse at the Literature

Bibliography

Subject Index