Natural first order Lagrangians for immersions
Volume 69 / 1998
Annales Polonici Mathematici 69 (1998), 207-215
DOI: 10.4064/ap-69-3-207-215
Abstract
We define natural first order Lagrangians for immersions of Riemannian manifolds and we prove a bijective correspondence between such Lagrangians and the symmetric functions on an open subset of m-dimensional Euclidean space.