GAUGE-NATURAL PARAMETRIZED VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS, VAKONOMIC FIELD THEORIES AND RELATIVISTIC HYDRODYNAMICS OF A CHARGED FLUID

DOI10.1142/S0219887806001843zbMATH Open1127.70012arXivmath-ph/0604053MaRDI QIDQ3422210FDOQ3422210

Authors: Enrico Bibbona, M. Francaviglia, Lorenzo Fatibene 

Publication date: 9 February 2007

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Variational principles for field theories where variations of fields are restricted along a parametrization are considered. In particular, gauge-natural parametrized variational problems are defined as those in which both the Lagrangian and the parametrization are gauge covariant and some further conditions is satisfied in order to formulate a N"other theorem that links horizontal and gauge symmetries to the relative conservation laws (generalizing what Fern{'a}ndez, Garc{'{i}}a and Rodrigo did in some recent papers). The case of vakonomic constraints in field theory is also studied within the framework of parametrized variational problems, defining and comparing two different concepts of criticality of a section, one arising directly from the vakonomic schema, the other making use of an adapted parametrization. The general theory is then applied to the case of hydrodynamics of a charged fluid coupled with its gravitational and electromagnetic field. A variational formulation including conserved currents and superpotentials is given that turns out to be computationally much easier than the standard one.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0604053

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesconstrained systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

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