On k-polycosymplectic Marsden-Weinstein reductions

Abstract

We review and slightly improve the known k-polysymplectic Marsden--Weinstein reduction theory by removing some technical conditions on k-polysymplectic momentum maps by developing a theory of affine Lie group actions for k-polysymplectic momentum maps, removing the necessity of their co-adjoint equivariance. Then, we focus on the analysis of a particular case of k-polysymplectic manifolds, the so-called fibred ones, and we study their k-polysymplectic Marsden--Weinstein reductions. Previous results allow us to devise a k-polycosymplectic Marsden--Weinstein reduction theory, which represents one of our main results. Our findings are applied to study coupled vibrating strings and, more generally, k-polycosymplectic Hamiltonian systems with field symmetries. We show that k-polycosymplectic geometry can be understood as a particular type of k-polysymplectic geometry. Finally, a k-cosymplectic to l-cosymplectic geometric reduction theory is presented, which reduces, geometrically, the space-time variables in a k-cosymplectic framework. An application of this latter result to a vibrating membrane with symmetries is given.

arXiv comment49 pages. Revised version. Added a reduction procedure of the space-time coordinates

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