Canonical transformations of local functionals and sh-Lie structures

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2004.07.005zbMATH Open1076.53101arXivmath-ph/0305033OpenAlexW2170289995MaRDI QIDQ556161FDOQ556161

Authors: Ron Fulp, S. Al-Ashhab 

Publication date: 13 June 2005

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

Abstract: In many Lagrangian field theories, there is a Poisson bracket on the space of local functionals. One may identify the fields of such theories as sections of a vector bundle. It is known that the Poisson bracket induces an sh-Lie structure on the graded space of horizontal forms on the jet bundle of the relevant vector bundle. We consider those automorphisms of the vector bundle which induce mappings on the space of functionals preserving the Poisson bracket and refer to such automorphisms as canonical automorphisms. We determine how such automorphisms relate to the corresponding sh-Lie structure. If a Lie group acts on the bundle via canonical automorphisms, there are induced actions on the space of local functionals and consequently on the corresponding sh-Lie algebra. We determine conditions under which the sh-Lie structure induces an sh-Lie structure on a corresponding reduced space where the reduction is determined by the action of the group. These results are not directly a consequence of the corresponding theorems on Poisson manifolds as none of the algebraic structures are Poisson algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0305033

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zbMATH Keywords

Poisson geometryjet bundlede Rham complexlocal functionalsh-Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Poisson algebras (17B63) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P91) Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Jets in global analysis (58A20)

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