Conserved quantities on multisymplectic manifolds

DOI10.1017/S1446788718000381MaRDI QIDQ5208830zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonid Ryvkin, Tilmann Wurzbacher, M. Zambon

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05592

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawshomotopy co-momentum mapmultisymplectic manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20)

Abstract: Given a vector field on a manifold M, we define a globally conserved quantity to be a differential form whose Lie derivative is exact. Integrals of conserved quantities over suitable submanifolds are constant under time evolution, the Kelvin circulation theorem being a well-known special case. More generally, conserved quantities are well-behaved under transgression to spaces of maps into M. We focus on the case of multisymplectic manifolds and Hamiltonian vector fields. We show that in the presence of a Lie group of symmetries admitting a homotopy co-momentum map, one obtains a whole family of globally conserved quantities. This extends a classical result in symplectic geometry. We carry this out in a general setting, considering several variants of the notion of globally conserved quantity.

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