Canonical structure of classical field theory in the polymomentum phase space (Q1290342)

The paper is aimed at extending the basic structures of mathematical formalism of classical Hamiltonian mechanics to field theory, according to the De Donder-Weyl polymomentum Hamiltonian formulation. In view of quantization of field theories, the emphasis is given to constructions which are important for different quantization procedures such as canonical quantization, geometric quantization, and deformation quantization. In particular, the paper introduces the Poisson bracket of forms. Some applications and a relation to the standard Hamiltonian formalism in field theory are briefly discussed.