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We consider the Hamiltonian constraint formulation of classical field theories, which treats spacetime and the space of fields symmetrically, and utilizes the concept of momentum multivector. The gauge field is introduced to compensate for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Vaclav Zatloukal

We state the intrinsic form of the Hamiltonian equations of first-order Classical Field theories in three equivalent geometrical ways: using multivector fields, jet fields and connections. Thus, these equations are given in a form similar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 A. Echeverría-Enríquez , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Román-Roy

The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we give a formal introduction to the basics of the mathematical framework of classical mechanics. Along the way, we prove a Hamiltonian and a Lagrangian version of Noether's Theorem, an important…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Yannis Bähni

This set of lecture notes first gives an introduction to the geometry of principal bundles. Next, it demonstrates how they can be used to formalize the concept of gauge theories arising in physics. A basic familiarity with the differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Matthijs Vákár

A general variational principle of classical fields with a Lagrangian containing the field quantity and its derivatives of up to the N-th order is presented. Noether's theorem is derived. The generalized Hamilton-Jacobi's equation for the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Zhaoyan Wu

This review paper is devoted to presenting the standard multisymplectic formulation for describing geometrically classical field theories, both the regular and singular cases. First, the main features of the Lagrangian formalism are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Narciso Román-Roy

For symmetric classical field theories on principal bundles there are two methods of symmetry reduction: covariant and dynamic. Assume that the classical field theory is given by a symmetric covariant Lagrangian density defined on the first…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 François Gay-Balmaz , Tudor S. Ratiu

We consider a model of classical noncommutative particle in an external electromagnetic field. For this model, we prove the existence of generalized gauge transformations. Classical dynamics in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian form is discussed,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-17 D. M. Gitman , V. G. Kupriyanov

In the jet-bundle description of first-order classical field theories there are some elements, such as the lagrangian energy and the construction of the hamiltonian formalism, which require the prior choice of a connection. Bearing these…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2016-04-11 A. Echeverría-Enríquez , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Román-Roy

Most modern theoretical considerations of the physical world suggest that nature is: (1) field-theoretic, (2) smooth, (3) local, (4) gauged, (5) containing fermions, and (6) non-perturbative. Tautologous as this may sound to experts, it is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Grigorios Giotopoulos , Hisham Sati

The present article deals with general mechanics in an unconventional manner. At first, Newtonian mechanics for a point particle has been described in vectorial picture, considering Cartesian, polar and tangent-normal formulations in a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Subenoy Chakraborty

We review in simple terms the covariant approaches to the canonical formulation of classical relativistic field theories (in particular gauge field theories and general relativity) and we discuss the relationships between these approaches…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-06 Francois Gieres

In this paper we introduce a generalization of Hamiltonian mechanics that replaces configuration spaces, conventionally regarded simply as smooth manifolds, with line bundles over smooth manifolds. Classical observables are then identified…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Carlos Zapata-Carratala

The work is devoted to studying some new classical electrodynamics models of interacting charged point particles and related with them physical aspects. Based on the vacuum field theory no-geometry approach, developed in \cite{BPT,BPT1},…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-19 N. N. Bogolubov , A. K. Prykarpatsky

Jet formalism provides the adequate mathematical formulation of classical field theory, reviewed in hep-th/0612182v1. A formulation of QFT compatible with this classical one is discussed. We are based on the fact that an algebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-07-31 G. Sardanashvily

Class lecture notes at a beginning graduate level on the mathematical background needed to understand classical gauge theory. Covers group actions, fiber bundles, principal bundles, connections, gauge transformations, parallel transport,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 George Svetlichny

We review the modern classical electrodynamics problems and present the related main fundamental principles characterizing the electrodynamical vacuum-field structure. We analyze the models of the vacuum field medium and charged point…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Nikolai N. Bogolubov , Denis Blackmore , Anatolij K. Prykarpatsky

We extend the geometric Hamilton-Jacobi formalism for hamiltonian mechanics to higher order field theories with regular lagrangian density. We also investigate the dependence of the formalism on the lagrangian density in the class of those…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-01 L. Vitagliano

We consider classical gauge theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking on a principal bundle $P\to X$ whose structure group $G$ is reducible to a closed subgroup $H$, and sections of the quotient bundle $P/H\to X$ are treated as classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 G. Sardanashvily , A. Kurov

We briefly discuss new models of an `affine' theory of gravity in multidimensional space-times with symmetric connections. We use and generalize Einstein's proposal to specify the space-time geometry by use of the Hamilton principle to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. T. Filippov