A presentation of the elements of the quotient sheaves \(\Omega_r^k/\Theta_r^k\) in variational sequences (Q882686)

Let \(J^rY\) be the \(r\)-th jet prolongation of a fibered manifold \(Y\to X\) and denote by \(\Omega^k_r\) the sheave of \(k\)-forms over \(J^rY\) and by \(\Theta^k_r\) the contact forms and their exterior derivatives. The present paper is based on the results by \textit{D. Krupka} [Variational Sequences on Finite Order Jet Spaces. Differential geometry and its applications. International conference, Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1989. Singapore: World Scientific, 236--254 (1990; Zbl 0813.58014)], who constructed the de Rham sequence of quotient sheaves \(\Omega^k_r/\Theta^k_r\), which is called the variational sequence of order \(r\) over \(Y\). The present paper is devoted to the description of the elements of quotient sheaves \(\Omega^k_r/\Theta^k_r\). This problem is solved for \(r=1\) and \(r=2\). The author also writes that the other cases follow by the same method.