Symplectic structures related with higher order variational problems

DOI10.1142/S021988781550084XzbMath1332.53034arXiv1408.2142MaRDI QIDQ3453257

Giovanni Moreno, Jerzy Kijowski

Publication date: 20 November 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.2142

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian formalismjet bundlesconstraintsfiber bundlesPoincaré-Cartan formiterated jetscanonical field theoryhigher-derivative field theorymulti-symplectic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) General topics in partial differential equations (35A99)

Related Items (4)

General Relativity Theory and Its Canonical Structure ⋮ Covariant jets of a connection and higher order curvature tensors ⋮ Tulczyjew triples in higher derivative field theory ⋮ Universality of the Einstein theory of gravitation

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