Multisymplectic Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms of classical field theories

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.100zbMATH Open1241.70048arXivmath-ph/0506022MaRDI QIDQ970289FDOQ970289

N. Román-Roy

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This review paper is devoted to presenting the standard multisymplectic formulation for describing geometrically classical field theories, both the regular and singular cases. First, the main features of the Lagrangian formalism are revisited and, second, the Hamiltonian formalism is constructed using Hamiltonian sections. In both cases, the variational principles leading to the Euler-Lagrange and the Hamilton-De Donder-Weyl equations, respectively, are stated, and these field equations are given in different but equivalent geometrical ways in each formalism. Finally, both are unified in a new formulation (which has been developed in the last years), following the original ideas of Rusk and Skinner for mechanical systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0506022

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zbMATH Keywords

fiber bundlesclassical field theoriesLagrangian and Hamiltonian formalismsmultisymplectic manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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