Canonical multi-symplectic structure on the total exterior algebra bundle

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 462, Issue 2069, 2006, Pages 1531-1551

  Bridges, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential forms; Dirac operators; Nonlinear elliptic PDEs; Symplecticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749326404     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2005.1629     Document Type: Article

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