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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480447703321

Titolo

Mathematical aspects of classical field theory : proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held July 20-26, 1991, with support from the National Science Foundation / / [editors] Mark J. Gotay, Jerrod E. Marsden, Vincent Moncrief

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1992]

©1992

ISBN

0-8218-7723-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (658 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 132

Disciplina

530.1/4

Soggetti

Field theory (Physics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Mathematical Aspects of Classical Field Theory was held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Hidden symmetries in field theory""; ""Construction of locally-symmetric Lagrangian field theories from variational identities""; ""Introduction to the variational bicomplex""; ""Wess-Zumino terms, extended algebras, and anomalies in classical physics""; ""Scattering and complete integrability in four dimensions""; ""A candidate maximal torus in infinite dimensions""; ""Censorship, null geodesics, and strong visibility""; ""Quasilocal energy in general relativity""; ""The reduction of Einstein's vacuum equations on spacetimes with spacelike U(1)-isometry groups""

""Finiteness theorems in Riemannian geometry and lattice quantum gravity""""Bihamiltonian manifolds and T-function""; ""On uniqueness in the large of solutions of Einstein's equations (""Strong cosmic censorship"")""; ""Reduction of degenerate non-autonomous Lagrangians""; ""On exactness of the variational bicomplex""; ""Geometric quantization and localization of relativistic spin systems""; ""Riemannian maps between Riemannian manifolds""; ""Stress-energy-momentum tensors and the Belinfante-Rosenfeld formula""; ""On the



use of auxiliary fields in classical mechanics and in field theory""

""Progress on strong cosmic censorship""""Loop algebras and canonical quantum gravity""; ""Prequantum BRST cohomology""; ""Jacobian quasi-bialgebras and quasi-Poisson Lie groups""; ""Deformations and quantum statistical mechanics""; ""Canonical and BRST-quantization of constrained systems""; ""Classical observables of Gauge theories from the multitemporal approach""; ""Variational problems on graded manifolds""; ""The regularity of variational problems""; ""Homological (ghost) approach to constrained Hamiltonian systems""; ""A deformation theory of self-dual Einstein spaces""

""What are the rules of the game called BRST?""""SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1): The residual symmetry of conformal gravity""