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In this volume we are not particularly concerned with variational problems, although we shortly deal with Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics in chapt. IV, and will consider gauge theories - which are set in variational terms - in chapts. VII and VIII.
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Gaeta, G. (1994). Variational problems. In: Nonlinear Symmetries and Nonlinear Equations. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 299. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1018-1_5
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