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2013/83/1-2 (5) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2013.5500 — pp. 71-84

The Helmholtz conditions for systems of second order homogeneous differential equations

Authors: Zbyněk Urban and Demeter Krupka

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Keywords: variational differential equation, Helmholtz conditions, Lagrangian, positive homogeneous function, Zermelo conditions, Finsler geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification: 34A26, 34A34, 58B20