Open Education, Opava, 1998, 150 pp.
See also Diffiety Inst. Preprint Series,
DIPS 7/98.
Contents
Introduction 1 Differential calculus over commutative algebras 1.1 Linear differential operators 1.2 Multiderivations and the Diff-Spencer complex 1.3 Jets 1.4 Compatibility complex 1.5 Differential forms and the de Rham complex 1.6 Left and right differential modules 1.7 The Spencer cohomology 1.8 Geometrical modules 2 Algebraic model for Lagrangian formalism 2.1 Adjoint operators 2.2 Berezinian and integration 2.3 Green's formula 2.4 The Euler operator 2.5 Conservation laws 3 Jets and nonlinear differential equations. Symmetries 3.1 Finite jets 3.2 Nonlinear differential operators 3.3 Infinite jets 3.4 Nonlinear equations and their solutions 3.5 Cartan distribution on Jk(p) 3.6 Classical symmetries 3.7 Prolongations of differential equations 3.8 Basic structures on infinite prolongations 3.9 Higher symmetries 4 Coverings and nonlocal symmetries 4.1 Coverings 4.2 Nonlocal symmetries and shadows 4.3 Reconstruction theorems 5 Fröliher-Nijenhuis brackets and recursion operators 5.1 Calculus in form-valued derivations 5.2 Algebras with flat connections and cohomology 5.3 Applications to differential equations: recursion operators 5.4 Passing to nonlocalities 6 Horizontal cohomology 6.1C-modules on differential equations 6.2 The horizontal de Rham complex 6.3 Horizontal compatibility complex 6.4 Applications to computing the C-cohomology groups 6.5 Example: Evolution equations 7 Vinogradov's C-spectral sequence 7.1 Definition of the Vinogradov C-spectral sequence 7.2 The term E1 for J¥(p) 7.3 The term E1 for an equation 7.4 Example: Abelian p-form theories 7.5 Conservation laws and generating functions 7.6 Generating functions from the antifield-BRST standpoint 7.7 Euler-Lagrange equations 7.8 The Hamiltonian formalism on J¥(p) 7.9 On superequations 8 Appendix: Homological algebra 8.1 Complexes 8.2 Spectral sequences
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