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JetCalculus[VerticalExteriorDerivative] - calculate the vertical exterior derivative of a bi-form on a jet space

Calling Sequences

     VerticalExteriorDerivative()

Parameters

           - a differential bi-form on the jet space of a fiber bundle 

 

Description

Examples

Description

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Let be a fiber bundle, with base dimension  and fiber dimension  and let  be the infinite jet bundle of . The  -forms  can be graded by horizontal and vertical (or contact) degree and, with respect to this grading, the exterior derivative operator can be decomposed as The horizontal exterior derivative raises the horizontal degree by 1 and the vertical exterior derivative raises the vertical degree by 1. For details, see HorizontalExteriorDerivative.

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The command VerticalExteriorDerivative() returns the vertical exterior derivative .

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The command VerticalExteriorDerivative is part of the DifferentialGeometry:-JetCalculus package.  It can be used in the form VerticalExteriorDerivative(...) only after executing the commands with(DifferentialGeometry) and with(JetCalculus), but can always be used by executing DifferentialGeometry:-JetCalculus:-VerticalExteriorDerivative(...).

Examples

 

Example 1.

Create the jet space with coordinates

 

Calculate the vertical exterior derivative of a function.

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E > 

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(2.1)

 

Calculate the vertical exterior derivative of a type (1, 0) bi-form.

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(2.2)
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(2.3)

 

Calculate the vertical exterior derivative of a type (0, 2) bi-form.

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(2.4)
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(2.5)

See Also

DifferentialGeometry

JetCalculus

ExteriorDerivative

HorizontalExteriorDerivative

HorizontalHomotopy

VerticalHomotopy

 


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