Partial differential Hamiltonian systems

DOI10.4153/CJM-2012-055-0MaRDI QIDQ2871246zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Luca Vitagliano

Publication date 22 January 2014

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4528

zbMATH Keywords

fiber bundlehigher-order field theorymultisymplectic geometryPoisson bracketsymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

Abstract: We define partial differential (PD in the following), i.e., field theoretic analogues of Hamiltonian systems on abstract symplectic manifolds and study their main properties, namely, PD Hamilton equations, PD Noether theorem, PD Poisson bracket, etc.. Unlike in standard multisymplectic approach to Hamiltonian field theory, in our formalism, the geometric structure (kinematics) and the dynamical information on the "phase space" appear as just different components of one single geometric object.

Review text

The author presents his own approach to higher-order field theories in a general framework of the so-called partial differential Hamiltonian systems. As is well known, Lagrangian mechanics is developed on the tangent bundle of the configuration manifold, whereas the Hamiltonian mechanics has a dual picture on its cotangent bundle. In the case of first-order Lagrangian field theories the dynamics occurs on the space of 1-jets of sections of the configuration bundle, and the arena for the corresponding Hamiltonian description is the so-called multimomentum space, which is obtained using the space of basic forms on the configuration bundle. In both cases, one can connect the two sides (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian) using a Legendre transform.NEWLINENEWLINEThe situation becomes more involved for higher-order theories, due to the ambiguities on the definition of regularity and the identification of proper generalized momenta. A recent approach to this problem should be noticed that uses an extension of the Skinner and Rusk formalism for mechanics by \textit{C. M. Campos} et al. [J. Phys. A, Math. Theor. 43, No. 45, Article ID 455206, 26 p. (2010; Zbl 1248.58010); ibid. 42, No. 47, Article ID 475207, 24 p. (2009; Zbl 1231.58005)]. To avoid these problems, the author introduces the notion of partial differential Hamiltonian systems on a fiber bundle \(\alpha : P \longrightarrow M\) as a \(\delta\)-closed \(2\)-form on \(P\) satisfying some properties with \(\delta\) a (restricted) de Rham differential. The author also discusses symmetries and Poisson brackets in this framework. The connection with other approaches (multisymplectic geometry and similar structures) is also studied. Some examples are considered.

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