The Generalized Liouville's Theorems via Euler-Lagrange Cohomology Groups on Symplectic Manifold

Guo, Han-Ying; Pan, Jianzhong; Zhou, Bin

The Generalized Liouville's Theorems via Euler-Lagrange Cohomology Groups on Symplectic Manifold

Authors

Guo, Han-Ying

Pan, Jianzhong

Zhou, Bin

Description

Based on the Euler-Lagrange cohomology groups $H_{EL}^{(2k-1)}({\cal M}^{2n}) (1 \leqslant k\leqslant n)$ on symplectic manifold $({\cal M}^{2n}, ω)$, their properties and a kind of classification of vector fields on the manifold, we generalize Liouville's theorem in classical mechanics to two sequences, the symplectic(-like) and the Hamiltonian-(like) Liouville's theorems. This also generalizes Noether's theorem, since the sequence of symplectic(-like) Liouville's theorems link to the cohomology directly.
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