Gay-Balmaz, FrancoisHolm, Darryl D.Ratiu, Tudor S.2012-06-122012-06-122012-06-12201110.1007/s00574-011-0030-7https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/81602WOS:000297742900005Motivated by the problem of longitudinal data assimilation, e.g., in the registration of a sequence of images, we develop the higher-order framework for Lagrangian and Hamiltonian reduction by symmetry in geometric mechanics. In particular, we obtain the reduced variational principles and the associated Poisson brackets. The special case of higher order Euler-Poincar, and Lie-Poisson reduction is also studied in detail.variational principlesymmetryconnectionPoisson bracketshigher order tangent bundleLie-Poisson reductionEuler-Lagrange equationsEuler-Poincare equationsLagrange-Poincare equationsHamilton-Poincare equationsYang-Mills FieldClassical ParticleEquationstext::journal::journal article::research article