On the construction of K-operators in field theories as sections along Legendre maps

DOI10.1023/A:1023671402908zbMATH Open1028.58001arXivmath-ph/0103019OpenAlexW3102693147WikidataQ57948241 ScholiaQ57948241MaRDI QIDQ1398024FDOQ1398024

Jesús Marín-Solano, Arturo Echeverria-Enríques, N. Román-Roy, Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda

Publication date: 6 August 2003

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The ``time-evolution operator in mechanics is a powerful tool which can be geometrically defined as a vector field along the Legendre map. It has been extensively used by several authors for studying the structure and properties of the dynamical systems (mainly the non-regular ones), such as the relation between the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms, constraints, and higher-order mechanics. This paper is devoted to defining a generalization of this operator for field theories, in a covariant formulation. In order to do this, we also use sections along maps, in particular multivector fields (skew-symmetric contravariant tensor fields of order greater than 1), jet fields and connection forms along the Legendre map. As a first relevant property, we use these geometrical objects to obtain the solutions of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian field equations, and the equivalence among them (specially for non-regular field theories).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0103019

zbMATH Keywords

connectionsmultivector fieldsLagrangian and Hamiltonian formalismsjet bundlesfirst-order field theoriesjet fieldssections along maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical system aspects of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K99) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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