RT Journal Article T1 Reduction in principal bundles: covariant Lagrange-Poincaré equations. A1 Castrillón López, Marco A1 Ratiu, T. AB A general reduction theory for field theoretical Lagrangians on principal fiber bundles is presented. The reduced variational problem as well as the associated equations are formulated. The link between the solutions of the original problem and that of the reduced problem is discussed and an obstruction to the reconstruction of the solutions is isolated. The important case of semidirect products is discussed in detail and several concrete examples are presented. PB Springer SN 0010-3616 YR 2003 FD 2003-05 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50862 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50862 LA eng NO DGESIC NO European Commission and the Swiss Federal Government NO Research Training Network Mechanics and Symmetry in Europe (MASIE) NO Swiss National Science Foundation. DS Docta Complutense RD 16 abr 2025