Generating functionals and Lagrangian partial differential equations

DOI10.1063/1.4817391MaRDI QIDQ5407636zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joris Vankerschaver, C. Liao, Melvin Leok

Publication date 7 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0280

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

Abstract: We introduce the concept of Type-I/II generating functionals defined on the space of boundary data of a Lagrangian field theory. On the Lagrangian side, we define an analogue of Jacobi's solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for field theories, and we show that by taking variational derivatives of this functional, we obtain an isotropic submanifold of the space of Cauchy data, described by the so-called multisymplectic form formula. We also define a Hamiltonian analogue of Jacobi's solution, and we show that this functional is a Type-II generating functional. We finish the paper by defining a similar framework of generating functions for discrete field theories, and we show that for the linear wave equation, we recover the multisymplectic conservation law of Bridges.

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