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.
- Differential calculus over commutative algebras.
- Frölicher-Nijenhuis brackets and related cohomologies. Algebraic model of Hamiltonian formalism.
- Frölicher-Nijenhuis brackets and related cohomologies. Algebraic model of nonlinear differential equations.
- Geometric realization. Relation between the category of vector bundle over a manifold and the category of projective modules over a commutative ring.
- Jets of locally trivial bundle over smooth manifolds. The Cartan distribution.
- Symmetries of the Cartan distribution and the Lie-Backlund theorem.