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Title: A new infinite order formulation of variational sequences (English)
Author: Vitolo, Raffaele
Language: English
Journal: Archivum Mathematicum
ISSN: 0044-8753 (print)
ISSN: 1212-5059 (online)
Volume: 34
Issue: 4
Year: 1998
Pages: 483-504
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: The theory of variational bicomplexes is a natural geometrical setting for the calculus of variations on a fibred manifold. It is a well–established theory although not spread out very much among theoretical and mathematical physicists. Here, we present a new approach to infinite order variational bicomplexes based upon the finite order approach due to Krupka. In this approach the information related to the order of jets is lost, but we have a considerable simplification both in the exposition and in the computations. We think that our infinite order approach could be easily applied in concrete situations, due to the conceptual simplicity of the scheme. (English)
Keyword: fibred manifold
Keyword: jet space
Keyword: infinite order jet space
Keyword: variational bicomplex
Keyword: variational sequence 483504
MSC: 49J45
MSC: 58A12
MSC: 58A20
MSC: 58E30
MSC: 58J10
idZBL: Zbl 0970.58002
idMR: MR1679643
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Date available: 2009-02-17T10:16:12Z
Last updated: 2012-05-10
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/107676
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