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The Geometry of Jet Bundles

The Geometry of Jet Bundles

Saunders, D. J.
Cassels, J. W. S.
Hitchin, N. J.

Paperback

Series: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note, Book 142

GeometryProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 0521369487
ISBN13: 9780521369480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 9 1989
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to the theory of jet bundles for mathematicians and physicists who wish to study differential equations, particularly those associated with the calculus of variations, in a modern geometric way. One of the themes of the book is that first-order jets may be considered as the natural generalisation of vector fields for studying variational problems in field theory, and so many of the constructions are introduced in the context of first- or second-order jets, before being described in their full generality. The book includes a proof of the local exactness of the variational bicomplex. A knowledge of differential geometry is assumed by the author, although introductory chapters include the necessary background of fibred manifolds, and on vector and affine bundles. Coordinate-free techniques are used throughout, although coordinate representations are often used in proofs and when considering applications.

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