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Noether's Theorem in Multisymplectic Geometry

Symplectic Geometry 2017-11-15 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We extend Noether's theorem to the setting of multisymplectic geometry by exhibiting a correspondence between conserved quantities and continuous symmetries on a multi-Hamiltonian system. We show that a homotopy co-momentum map interacts with this correspondence in a way analogous to the moment map in symplectic geometry. We apply our results to generalize the theory of the classical momentum and position functions from the phase space of a given physical system to the multisymplectic phase space. We also apply our results to manifolds with a torsion-free G2G_2 structure.

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@article{arxiv.1705.05818,
  title  = {Noether's Theorem in Multisymplectic Geometry},
  author = {Jonathan Herman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05818},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

36 pages. For version 2: Incorporated the referee's suggestions and fixed some typos. To appear in Differential Geometry and its Applications

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