Lagrangians and integrability of difference equations

by Giorgio Gubbiotti (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia)

Friday 17 Jan 2020, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G.Marconi)

We present a recently found algorithmic method to solve the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for scalar difference equations of order higher than 2. We show how this algorithm can be
used to classify families of difference equations and study their integrability properties