Joseph Krasil'shchik's lectures on the linear differential operators over commutative algebras and geometry of jet spaces
Autumn 2015
Syllabus
- Category and functors (introduction).
- Linear differential operators with values in modules. Main properties.
- Derivations.
- Representative objects: jets and differential forms.
- Fr\:olicher-Nijenhuis brackets and related cohomologies. Algebraic model of Hamiltonian formalism.