Secondary calculus and the covariant phase space

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2008.12.001zbMATH Open1171.53057arXiv0809.4164OpenAlexW2157468270MaRDI QIDQ2270495FDOQ2270495

Authors: Luca Vitagliano 

Publication date: 28 July 2009

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The covariant phase space of a Lagrangian field theory is the solution space of the associated Euler-Lagrange equations. It is, in principle, a nice environment for covariant quantization of a Lagrangian field theory. Indeed, it is manifestly covariant and possesses a canonical (functional) "presymplectic structure" w (as first noticed by Zuckerman in 1986) whose degeneracy (functional) distribution is naturally interpreted as the Lie algebra of gauge transformations. We propose a fully rigorous approach to the covariant phase space in the framework of secondary calculus. In particular we describe the degeneracy distribution of w. As a byproduct we rederive the existence of a Lie bracket among gauge invariant functions on the covariant phase space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4164

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic reductiongauge theorygeometry of PDEsjet spacescovariant phase spacesecondary calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differential topology (57R99) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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