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Concatenating Variational Principles and the Kinetic Stress-Energy-Momentum Tensor

Authors :
Lopez, Marco Castrillon
Gotay, Mark J.
Marsden, Jerrold E.
Publication Year :
2007

Abstract

We show how to "concatenate" variational principles over different bases into one over a single base, thereby providing a unified Lagrangian treatment of interacting systems. As an example we study a Klein-Gordon field interacting with a mesically charged particle. We employ our method to give a novel group-theoretic derivation of the kinetic stress-energy-momentum tensor density corresponding to the particle.<br />Comment: 16 pages, 1 figure

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematical Physics
70S05
70G75

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.0711.4679
Document Type :
Working Paper