Homogeneous variational complexes and bicomplexes (Q1021781)

A family of complexes is described playing the same rôle for homogeneous variational problems that the horizontal parts of the variational bicomplex play for variational problems on a fibered manifold. It is shown that -- except one of them -- these complexes are globally exact modulo certain pullbacks. All the complexes may be embedded in bicomplexes, and it is shown that, again modulo pullbacks, the latter are locally exact. Finally, a detailed discussion is provided on the edge sequence -- an important part of such a bicomplex, which proves to be useful in the study of homogeneous variational problems.