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MiS Preprint
16/2010

Non-differentiable embedding of Lagrangian systems and partial differential equations

Jacky Cresson and Isabelle Greff

Abstract

We develop the non-differentiable embedding theory of differential operators and Lagrangian systems using a new operator on non-differentiable functions. We then construct the corresponding calculus of variations and we derive the associated non-differentiable Euler-Lagrange equation, and apply this formalism to the study of PDE's. First, we extend the characteristics method to the non-differentiable case. We prove that non-differentiable characteristics for the Navier-Stokes equation correspond to extremals of an explicit non-differentiable Lagrangian system. Second, we prove that the solutions of the Schrödinger equation are non-differentiable extremals of the Newton's Lagrangian.

Received:
Feb 24, 2010
Published:
Mar 16, 2010

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2011 Repository Open Access
Jacky Cresson and Isabelle Greff

Non-differentiable embedding of Lagrangian systems and partial differential equations

In: Journal of mathematical analysis and applications, 384 (2011) 2, pp. 626-646