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This chapter concerns the very general principles which are at the base of the existence of hylomorphic solitons such as the Variational Principle, the Invariance Principle, Noether’s theorem, the Hamilton-Jacobi theory. A recent historical and epistemological analysis of these principles can be found in [44].
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Benci, V., Fortunato, D. (2014). The General Principles. In: Variational Methods in Nonlinear Field Equations. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06914-2_1
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