We give an exposition of the calculus of variations in several variables. The introduction of a linear differential form studied by Cartan makes possible an invariant treatment of the Hamiltonian formalism. Noether’s theorem, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the second variation are discussed and a Poisson bracket is defined.
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