Atlantis Studies in Variational Geometry

The book provides a detailed exposition of the calculus of variations on fibre bundles and graded manifolds. It presents applications in such area''s as non-relativistic mechanics, gauge theory, gravitation theory and topological field theory with  emphasis on energy and energy-momentum conservation laws. Within this general context the first and second Noether theorems are treated in the very general setting of reducible degenerate graded Lagrangian theory.