Multivector fields and connections: Setting Lagrangian equations in field theories

DOI10.1063/1.532525zbMath0927.37054arXivdg-ga/9707001OpenAlexW3105820120MaRDI QIDQ4701664

Arturo Echeverría-Enríquez, Narciso Román-Roy, Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda

Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9707001

zbMATH Keywords

existenceNoether's theoremintegrable connectionsnonuniquenessLagrangian evolution equationsintegrability of multivector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

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