Homological algebra of multivalued action functionals

DOI10.1023/A:1015753418745MaRDI QIDQ1609434zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors E. Aldrovandi

Publication date 15 August 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0112031

zbMATH Keywords

multivalued action functionalsvariational bicomplex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral sequences, hypercohomology (18G40) Sheaf cohomology in algebraic topology (55N30) Abstract complexes in algebraic topology (55U05) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

Abstract: We outline a cohomological treatment for multivalued (classical) action functionals. We point out that an application of Takens' theorem, after Zuckerman, Deligne and Freed, allows to conclude that multivalued functionals yield globally defined variational equations.

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