Action principles and conserved currents

15.11.2016, 16:15 Uhr  –  Campus Golm, Haus 9, Raum 0.14
Seminar Geometry and Physics

Lars Andersson

I will introduce, and give examples of, the notions of symplectic potential current, symplectic current, and Noether current for a Lagrangian field theory with local symmetries.
References:
Lee and Wald, Local symmetries and constraints, JMP 1990
Iyer and Wald, Some properties of the Noether charge and a proposal for black hole entropy, PRD 1994