Staff profile

Professor Olga Krupkova

Adjunct Professor

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Physical Sciences 2, Room 314, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

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

Area of study

Mathematics and Statistics

Brief Profile

Research Interests:

- Geometric methods in theoretical and mathematical physics - Geometric and variational structures in physics - Geometry of differential equations - Global calculus of variations

Recent Publications

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.