%0 Book Section %T Lie algebra pairing and the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian equations in gauge-invariant problems publisher World Scientific Publishing Co %D 2008 %U 981-279-060-8 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53286 %X Let P → M be a principal G-bundle over a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, g). If G is semisimple, the Euler-Lagrange and the Hamilton-Cartan equations of the Yang-Mills Lagrangian defined by g are proved to remain unchanged if the Cartan-Killing metric is replaced by any other non-degenerate, adjoint-invariant bilinear form on the Lie algebra %~