Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Faculty of Science
Ching-Lou LIAO (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan)
Calculus of variation on finite dimensional manifolds via exterior differential systems was expounded in the books of Sternberg, Bryant and Griffiths. Here we plan to extend the theory of exterior differential systems and study the applications to calculus of variation on Hilbert manifolds.