cohomology of the variational complex in the class of exterior forms of finite jet order上同调的变分复杂类的外部形式的有限的飞机订单.pdfVIP

IJMMS 30:1 (2002) 39–47 PII. S0161171202012097 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. COHOMOLOGY OF THE VARIATIONAL COMPLEX IN THE CLASS OF EXTERIOR FORMS OF FINITE JET ORDER GENNADI SARDANASHVILY Received 19 February 2001 and in revised form 18 September 2001 We obtain the cohomology of the variational complex on the infinite-order jet space of a smooth fiber bundle in the class of exterior forms of finite jet order. In particular, this provides a solution of the global inverse problem of the calculus of variations of finite order on fiber bundles. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 55N30, 58A20, 58E30. 1. Introduction. Let Y → X be a smooth fiber bundle; put further dim X = n ≥ 1. We obtain cohomology of the variational complex on the infinite-order jet space J ∞ Y of Y → X in the class of exterior forms of finite jet order. This is cohomology of the horizontal (or total) differential dH and the variational operator δ. We usually consider two bigraded differential algebras ∗ and ∗ of exterior forms ∞ ∞ on J ∞ Y . The algebra ∗ consists of exterior forms which are locally the pullback of ∞ exterior forms on finite-order jet manifolds. The de Rham cohomology, dH - and δ- cohomology of ∗ have been investigated in [2, 12]. The subalgebra ∗ of ∗ con- ∞ ∞ ∞ sists of the pullback of exterior forms on finite-order jet manifolds. Cohomology of ∗ , ∞ except the de Rham cohomology and the particular result of [14] on δ-cohomology, re- mains un