A problem with index notation. Related variational calculus.

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i was reading a paper and i find something that i don't understand.

This is the paper "An action principle for action-dependent Lagrangians: Toward an action principle to non-conservative systems".

In the theorem II.1 the author writes. Let $\partial_{\mu}L=\gamma_{\mu}$ be a gradient $\gamma_{\mu}=\partial_{\mu}f(x^{v})$ (1). The indexes in the left hand side of the equation (1) are correct?

Can you give a place to read about this or one example?

Thank you.