Reduction of polysymplectic manifolds

The aim of this paper is to generalize the classical Marsden-Weinstein reduction procedure for symplectic manifolds to polysymplectic manifolds in order to obtain quotient manifolds which in- herit the polysymplectic structure. This generalization allows us to reduce polysymplectic Hamiltonian systems with symmetries, such as those appearing in certain kinds of classical field theories. As an application of this technique, an analogous to the Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau theorem for polysymplectic manifolds is obtained and some other mathematical examples are also analyzed. Our procedure corrects some mistakes and inaccuracies in previous papers [29, 50] on this subject.Comment: Latex file. 33 pages. New examples, comments and references are adde

Higher-order Cartan symmetries in k-symplectic field theory

For k-symplectic Hamiltonian field theories, we study infinitesimal transformations generated by certain kinds of vector fields which are not Noether symmetries, but which allow us to obtain conservation laws by means of a suitable generalization of the Noether theorem.Comment: 11 page

k-cosymplectic formalism in classical field theory: the Skinner–Rusk approach

The k-cosymplectic Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms of first-order field theories are reviewed and completed. In particular they are stated for singular almost-regular systems. After that, both formalisms are unified by giving an extension of the Skinner-Rusk formulation on classical mechanics for first-order field theories