Vol.4, No 16, 2004 pp. 169-171
UDC 517.9(045)
Letter to Editor
THE VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR
YANG-MILLS EQUATION BY THE SEMI-INVERSE METHOD
Hong-Mei Liu
College of Science, Donghua University, P.O. Box 471, 1882 Yan'an Xilu
Road, Shanghai 200051, China
Abstract. A variational principle is obtained for Yang-Mills equation
by Ji-Huan He's semi-inverse method, which is proved to be a powerful mathematical
tool to the search for a variational formulation directly from the field
equations.
Key words: variational principle, Yang-Mills equation, nonlinearity