A frame bundle generalization of multisymplectic momentum mappings

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33)

Abstract: This paper presents generalized momentum mappings for covariant Hamiltonian field theories. The new momentum mappings arise from a generalization of symplectic geometry to

L_{V} Y

, the bundle of vertically adapted linear frames over the bundle of field configurations

Y

. Specifically, the generalized field momentum observables are vector-valued momentum mappings on the vertically adapted frame bundle generated from automorphisms of

Y

. The generalized symplectic geometry on

L_{V} Y

is a covering theory for multisymplectic geometry on the multiphase space

Z

, and it follows that the field momentum observables on

Z

are generalized by those on

L_{V} Y

. Furthermore, momentum observables on

L_{V} Y

produce conserved quantities along flows in

L_{V} Y

. For translational and orthogonal symmetries of fields and reparametrization symmetry in mechanics, momentum is conserved, and for angular momentum in time-evolution mechanics we produce a version of the parallel axis theorem of rotational dynamics, and in special relativity, we produce the transformation of angular momentum under boosts.

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The geometric setting of the paper under review is as follows: \(X\) is an oriented \(n\)-dimensional manifold (the parameter space) and \(Y\) is a fibre bundle over \(X\) which standard fibre a \(k\)-dimensional manifold (the range of the fields over \(X\)). This is enough to build the multiphase space \(Z\) over \(Y\) which possesses a canonical \(n\)-form \(\Theta\). Accordingly, the pair (\(Z, {\text d} {\Theta}\)) is called a multisymplectic manifold. If \(Z\) is equiped with a (left) action of the Lie group \(G\) which leaves the multisymplectic structure \({\text{rd}} \Theta \) invariant then one can define a momentum mapping \(J: Z\to {\mathfrak g}^*\otimes \Lambda^{n-1}Z\), where \({\mathfrak g}^*\) is the dual space of the Lie algebra \({\mathfrak g}\) of \(G\). A more concrete realization of the above construction can be easily obtained by considering the (\(n + k\))-symplectic geometry on the vertically adapted frame bundle \(L_VY\). The components of the momentum mapping which arise in this situation can be identified with the conserved quantities in the respective field theory. This possibility is illustrated by the field angular momentum, affine and reparametrization symmetries in mechanics. The paper ends with some remarks concerning the role of the reduction theory in the above context.

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