Variationally trivial Lagrangians and locally variational differential equations of arbitrary order

AbstractWe continue our investigation of the Lagrangian formalism on jet bundle extensions using Fock space methods. We are able to provide the most general form of a variationally trivial Lagrangian of arbitrary order and we also give a generic expression for the most general locally variational differential equation. As anticipated in the literature, these expressions involve some special combinations of the highest order derivatives, called hyper-Jacobians