Lagrangian formalism for multiform fields on Minkowski spacetime (Q5932518)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1602946
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Lagrangian formalism for multiform fields on Minkowski spacetime (English)
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10 June 2001
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Throughout the paper \(X\) is a smooth multiform field over the Minkowski spacetime \(M,*\) is one of the multiform products \(\neg\), \(\wedge\) or Clifford, and \(\text{Im }X\) is the image of \(X\). The Lagrangian mapping associated to \(X\) is defined as a differentiable scalar-valued function of two multiform variables \[ {\mathcal L}:\text{Im }X\times \text{Im }\partial* X\to \mathbb{R}, \] and the Lagrangian operator \(\widehat{{\mathcal L}}\) is defined by \[ \widehat{{\mathcal L}}[X](x)={\mathcal L}[X(x), \partial *X(x)]. \] The authors use this formalism to obtain a unified mathematical description for several relativistic field theories.
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Lagrangian formalism
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multiform fields on Minkowski spacetime
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gravitational fields
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