American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2011, 3(1): 113-137. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2011.3.113

On the $k$-symplectic, $k$-cosymplectic and multisymplectic formalisms of classical field theories

 1 Departamento de Matemática Aplicada IV. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech., Edificio C-3, Campus Norte UPC, C/ Jordi Girona 1. 08034 Barcelona, Spain 2 Departamento de Xeometría e Topoloxía. Facultade de Matemáticas,, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela., 15706-Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Spain 3 Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidad de A Coruña. 15071-A Coruña, Spain

Received  October 2010 Revised  March 2011 Published  April 2011

The objective of this work is twofold: First, we analyze the relation between the $k$-cosymplectic and the $k$-symplectic Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms in classical field theories. In particular, we prove the equivalence between $k$-symplectic field theories and the so-called autonomous $k$-cosymplectic field theories, extending in this way the description of the symplectic formalism of autonomous systems as a particular case of the cosymplectic formalism in non-autonomous mechanics. Furthermore, we clarify some aspects of the geometric character of the solutions to the Hamilton-de Donder-Weyl and the Euler-Lagrange equations in these formalisms. Second, we study the equivalence between $k$-cosymplectic and a particular kind of multisymplectic Hamiltonian and Lagrangian field theories (those where the configuration bundle of the theory is trivial).
Citation: Narciso Román-Roy, Ángel M. Rey, Modesto Salgado, Silvia Vilariño. On the $k$-symplectic, $k$-cosymplectic and multisymplectic formalisms of classical field theories. Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 2011, 3 (1) : 113-137. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2011.3.113
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