The book provides a detailed exposition of the calculus of variations on fibre bundles and graded manifolds. It presents applications in such area's as non-relativistic mechanics, gauge theory, gravitation theory and topological field theory with emphasis on energy and energy-momentum conservation laws. Within this general context the first and second Noether theorems are treated in the very general setting of reducible degenerate graded Lagrangian theory.
Author(s): Gennadi Sardanashvily
Series: Atlantis Studies in Variational Geometry
Edition: 1
Publisher: Atlantis Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: xviii+297
Tags: Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds; Mechanics; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Calculus of Variations on Fibre Bundles....Pages 1-15
Noether’s First Theorem....Pages 17-25
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Field Theories....Pages 27-57
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Nonrelativistic Mechanics....Pages 59-92
Global Kepler Problem....Pages 93-101
Calculus of Variations on Graded Bundles....Pages 103-133
Noether’s Second Theorems....Pages 135-161
Yang–Mills Gauge Theory on Principal Bundles....Pages 163-181
SUSY Gauge Theory on Principal Graded Bundles....Pages 183-188
Gauge Gravitation Theory on Natural Bundles....Pages 189-200
Chern–Simons Topological Field Theory....Pages 201-206
Topological BF Theory....Pages 207-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-297