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The inverse problem of the calculus of variations: The use of geometrical calculus in Douglas’s analysis
The main objective of this paper is to work out a full-scale application of the integrability analysis of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, as developed in recent papers by Sarlet and Crampin. For this purpose, the celebrated work of Douglas on systems with two degrees of freedom …