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

DOI10.1023/A:1023671402908MaRDI QIDQ1398024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

Publication date 6 August 2003

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

connectionsfirst-order field theoriesjet bundlesjet fieldsLagrangian and Hamiltonian formalismsmultivector fieldssections along maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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).

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