Global Utilities

La Trobe University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Staff profile

Professor Olga Krupkova

Adjunct Professor

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Room 314 / Physical Sciences 2

  • T: +61 (0)3 9479 2106
  • F: +61 (0)3 9479 2466

Qualifications

  • MSc.(Charles), RNDr.(Charles), PhD.(Charles), DrSc.(Masaryk), Prof.(Palacký).

Research interests

  • Global calculus of variations, geometry of differential equations, geometric and variational structures in physics, geometric methods in theoretical and mathematical physics.

Recent key publications and presentations

  • The nonholonomic variational principle, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., in print.

  • (with D. Krupka, G. Prince and W. Sarlet) Contact symmetries of the Helmholtz form, Differential Geometry and Applications, 25 (2007) 518-542.

  • Partial differential equations with differential constraints, J. Differential Equations, 220 (2006) 354-395.

  • Variational metric structures, Publ. Math. Debrecen, 62 (2003), Issue in honour of L. Tamássy, 461-495.

  • Hamiltonian field theory, J. Geom. Phys., 43 (2002) 93-132.

  • (with J. Musilová) The relativistic particle as a mechanical system with non-holonomic constraints, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 34 (2001) 3859-3876.

 

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