The poisson bracket for Poisson forms in multisymplectic field theory

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 705-743

  Forger, Michael ^a   Paufler, Cornelius ^b   Römer, Hartmann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geometric field theory; Multisymplectic geometry; Poisson brackets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346901882     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X03001734     Document Type: Article

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