Canonical variational completion of differential equations

Abstract

Given a non-variational system of differential equations, the simplest way of turning it into a variational one is by adding a correction term. In the paper, we propose a way of obtaining such a correction term, based on the so-called Vainberg-Tonti Lagrangian, and present several applications in general relativity and classical mechanics.

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