Problem of the identical vanishing of Euler-Lagrange derivatives in field theory
- 15 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 27 (2) , 451-453
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.27.451
Abstract
I prove that the necessary and sufficient condition for two Lagrangian densities and to have exactly the same Euler-Lagrange derivatives is that their difference be the divergence of with a given dependence on . The main point is that depends on but does not depend on second derivatives of the field . Therefore, the function need not be linear in .
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