scholarly journals On Galilean connections and the first jet bundle

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1889-1895
Author(s):  
James D. E. Grant ◽  
Bradley C. Lackey
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Author(s):  
Peter Mann

This chapter examines the structure of the phase space of an integrable system as being constructed from invariant tori using the Arnold–Liouville integrability theorem, and periodic flow and ergodic flow are investigated using action-angle theory. Time-dependent mechanics is formulated by extending the symplectic structure to a contact structure in an extended phase space before it is shown that mechanics has a natural setting on a jet bundle. The chapter then describes phase space of integrable systems and how tori behave when time-dependent dynamics occurs. Adiabatic invariance is discussed, as well as slow and fast Hamiltonian systems, the Hannay angle and counter adiabatic terms. In addition, the chapter discusses foliation, resonant tori, non-resonant tori, contact structures, Pfaffian forms, jet manifolds and Stokes’s theorem.


Author(s):  
Daniel Canarutto

After a sketch of Lagrangian field theory on jet bundles, the notion of a gauge field is introduced as a section of an affine bundle which is naturally constructed without any involvement with structure groups. An original approach to gauge field theory in terms of covariant differentials (alternative to the jet bundle approach) is then developed, and the adaptations needed in order to deal with general theories are laid out. A careful exposition of the replacement principle allows comparisons with approaches commonly found in the literature.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 1650022
Author(s):  
Samson Apourewagne Djiba ◽  
Aïssa Wade

First we show that, associated to any Poisson vector field [Formula: see text] on a Poisson manifold [Formula: see text], there is a canonical Lie algebroid structure on the first jet bundle [Formula: see text] which, depends only on the cohomology class of [Formula: see text]. We then introduce the notion of a cosymplectic groupoid and we discuss the integrability of the first jet bundle into a cosymplectic groupoid. Finally, we give applications to Atiyah classes and [Formula: see text]-algebras.


2008 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 587-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERTO FERREIRO PÉREZ

The differential forms on the jet bundle J∞E of a bundle E → M over a compact n-manifold M of degree greater than n determine differential forms on the space Γ(E) of sections of E. The forms obtained in this way are called local forms on Γ(E), and its cohomology is called the local cohomology of Γ(E). More generally, if a group [Formula: see text] acts on E, we can define the local [Formula: see text]-invariant cohomology. The local cohomology is computed in terms of the cohomology of the jet bundle by means of the variational bicomplex theory. A similar result is obtained for the local [Formula: see text]-invariant cohomology. Using these results and the techniques for the computation of the cohomology of invariant variational bicomplexes in terms of relative Gelfand–Fuchs cohomology introduced in [4], we construct non trivial local cohomology classes in the important cases of Riemannian metrics with the action of diffeomorphisms, and connections on a principal bundle with the action of automorphisms.


2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-386
Author(s):  
Mohan Bhupal

AbstractIn this paper we construct a family of variational families for a Legendrian embedding, into the 1-jet bundle of a closed manifold, that can be obtained from the zero section through Legendrian embdeddings, by discretising the action functional. We compute the second variation of a generating funciton obtained as above at a nondegenerate critical point and prove a formula relating the signature of the second variation to the Maslov index as the mesh goes to zero. We use this to prove a generlisation of the Morse inequalities thus refining a theorem of Chekanov.


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