Tuesday, May 9, 2017 2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Jonathan Herman, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Momentum and Position Forms"
We first recall the theory of the classical momentum and position functions on the phase space of a manifold. The Poisson bracket relations between these functions form the bridging gap from classical to quantum mechanics. We extend the Poisson bracket to multisymplectic geometry and show that a more general relationship holds between 'momentum and position forms' on an $n$-plectic manifold.
MC 5479