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Building on the Utiyama principle we formulate an approach to Lagrangian field theory in which exterior covariant differentials of vector-valued forms replace partial derivatives, in the sense that they take up the role played by the latter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Daniel Canarutto

In this work, we develop a Lagrangian reduction theory for covariant field theories with gauge symmetries. These symmetries are modeled by a Lie group fiber bundle acting fiberwisely on a configuration bundle. In order to reduce the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Marco Castrillón López , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella

Classical field theories together with the Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches to continuum mechanics are embraced under a geometric setting of a fiber bundle. The base manifold can be either the body manifold of continuum mechanics, space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Raz Kupferman , Elihu Olami , Reuven Segev

We present the invariant structure of a Holomorphic Unified Field Theory in which gravity and gauge interactions arise from a single geometric framework. The theory is formulated using a product principal bundle, with one connection, and…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 J. W. Moffat , E. J. Thompson

This article sets out the framework of algebraic quantum field theory in curved spacetimes, based on the idea of local covariance. In this framework, a quantum field theory is modelled by a functor from a category of spacetimes to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 Christopher J. Fewster , Rainer Verch

Hamiltonian mechanics of field theory can be formulated in a generally covariant and background independent manner over a finite dimensional extended configuration space. The physical symplectic structure of the theory can then be defined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Carlo Rovelli

We propose a systematic generating procedure to construct free Lagrangians for massive, massless and partially massless, totally-symmetric tensor fields on $AdS_{d+1}$ starting from the BRST Lagrangian description of massless fields in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-05 Xavier Bekaert , Nicolas Boulanger , Maxim Grigoriev , Yegor Goncharov

The paper introduces a general mathematical framework for action based field theories on Finsler spacetimes. As most often fields on Finsler spacetime (e.g., the Finsler fundamental function or the resulting metric tensor) have a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu

Consistent nontrivial interactions within a special class of covariant mixed-symmetry type tensor gauge fields of degree three are constructed from the deformation of the solution to the master equation combined with specific cohomological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bizdadea , E. M. Cioroianu , I. Negru , S. O. Saliu

Covariant, self-interacting scalar quantum field theories admit solutions for low enough spacetime dimensions, but when additional divergences appear in higher dimensions, the traditional approach leads to results, such as triviality, that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 John R. Klauder

Motivated by the study of physical models associated with General Relativity, we review some finite-dimensional, geometric and covariant formulations that allow us to characterize in a simple manner the symmetries for classical field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Jasel Berra-Montiel , Alberto Molgado , Angel Rodríguez-López

In this paper I shall consider field theories in a space of four-dimensions which have field variables consisting of the components of a metric tensor and scalar field. The field equations of these scalar-tensor field theories will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Gregory W. Horndeski

By generalizing the cosymplectic setting for time-dependent Lagrangian mechanics, we propose a geometric framework for the Lagrangian formulation of classical field theories with a Lagrangian depending on the independent variables. For that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Lucía Búa , Ioan Bucataru , Manuel de León , Modesto Salgado , Silvia Vilariño

Geometric continuum models for fluid lipid membranes are considered using classical field theory, within a covariant variational approach. The approach is cast as a higher-derivative Lagrangian formulation of continuum classical field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Riccardo Capovilla

It is shown that the nature of physical time requires the extended phase-space in mechanics to have a bundle structure with time as the 1-dimensional base manifold and the phase space as the fiber. This bundle picture of the extended phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-20 Pankaj Sharan

Metric independent $\sigma$ models are constructed. These are field theories which generalise the membrane idea to situations where the target space has fewer dimensions than the base manifold. Instead of reparametrisation invariance of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Govaerts , A. Morozov

Relativistic elasticity on an arbitrary spacetime is formulated as a Lagrangian field theory which is covariant under spacetime diffeomorphisms. This theory is the relativistic version of classical elasticity in the hyperelastic, materially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Robert Beig , Bernd G. Schmidt

This work presents a comprehensive overview of three recently developed geometric frameworks for the study of classical action-dependent field theories. Specifically, the three underlying geometric structures - namely, k-contact,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Jordi Gaset-Rifà , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

This is the first paper of a five part work in which we study the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structure of classical field theories with constraints. Our goal is to explore some of the connections between initial value constraints and gauge…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 Mark J. Gotay , James Isenberg , Jerrold E. Marsden , Richard Montgomery

The author exposes the metrical multi-time Lagrange geometry of physical fields which naturally generalizes the classical Lagrangian developped by Miron and Anastasiei. In other words, one constructs a natural theory of physical fields on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-29 Mircea Neagu