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Ten lectures on jet manifolds in classical and quantum field theory

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

These Lectures summarize the relevant material on existent applications of jet manifold techniques to classical and quantum field theory. The following topics are included: 1. Fibre bundles, 2. Jet manifolds, 3. Connections, 4. Lagrangian field theory, 5. Gauge theory of principal connections, 6. Higher order jets, 7. Infinite order jets, 8. The variational bicomplex, 9. Geometry of simple graded manifolds, 10. Jets of ghosts and antifields.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0203040,
  title  = {Ten lectures on jet manifolds in classical and quantum field theory},
  author = {G. Sardanashvily},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0203040},
  year   = {2007}
}

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77 pages