Global Utilities

La Trobe University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Staff profile

Professor Demeter Krupka

Adjunct Professor

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Room 314 / Physical Sciences 2

  • T: +61 (0)3 9479 2106
  • F: +61 (0)3 9479 2466

Qualifications

  • MSc.(Masaryk), RNDr.(Masaryk), PhD.(Charles), DrSc.(CAS), Prof.(Masaryk).

Research interests

  • The calculus of variations on smooth manifolds Natural bundles, jets, and differential invariants Tensor algebra Geometric methods in physics.

Recent key publications and presentations

  • D. Krupka, D. Saunders, Eds., Handbook of Global Analysis, Elsevier, 2008, 1241 pp.
  • J. Brajercik, D. Krupka, Variational principles for locally variational forms, J. Math. Phys., 46, 052903 (2005), 1-15.
  • D. Krupka, Global variational principles: Foundations and current problems, Global Analysis and Applied Mathematics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 729, American Institute of Physics, 2004, 3-18.
  • D. Krupka, O. Krupková, Topology and Geometry, lectures and solved problems, SPN Prague, 1990, 404 pp. (in Czech).
  • D. Krupka, J. Janyska, Lectures on Differential Invariants, J. E. Purkyne Univ., Faculty of Science, Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1990, 193 pp.
  • D. Krupka, Variational sequences on finite order jet spaces, in: Differential Geometry and its Applications, Proc. Conf., Brno (Czechoslovakia), J. Janyska and D. Krupka, Eds., August 1989; World Scientific, Singapore, 1990, 236-254.

 

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