Gennadi Sardanashvily (; March 13, 1950 – September 1, 2016) was a theoretical physicist, a principal research scientist of Moscow State University.

Biography Gennadi Sardanashvily graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1973, he was a Ph.D. student of the Department of Theoretical Physics (MSU) in 1973–76, where he held a position in 1976.

He attained his Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from MSU, in 1980, with Dmitri Ivanenko as his supervisor, and his D.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics from MSU, in 1998.

Gennadi Sardanashvily was the founder and Managing Editor (2003 - 2013) of the International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (IJGMMP).

He was a member of Lepage Research Institute (Slovakia).

Research area

Gennadi Sardanashvily research area is geometric method in classical and quantum mechanics and field theory, gravitation theory. His main achievement is geometric formulation of classical field theory and non-autonomous mechanics including:

gauge gravitation theory, where gravity is treated as a classical Higgs field associated to a reduced Lorentz structure on a world manifoldD. Ivanenko, G. Sardanashvily, The gauge treatment of gravity, Physics Reports 94 (1983) 1–45. geometric formulation of classical field theoryG. Giachetta, L. Mangiarotti, G. Sardanashvily, Lagrangian supersymmetries depending on derivatives. Global analysis and cohomology, Commun. Math. Phys. 295 (2005) 103–128; . and Lagrangian BRST theoryD. Bashkirov, G. Giachetta, L. Mangiarotti, G. Sardanashvily, The KT-BRST complex of a degenerate Lagrangian theory, Lett. Math. Phys. 83 (2008) 237–252; . where classical fields are represented by sections of fiber bundles and their dynamics is described in terms of jet manifolds and the variational bicomplex (covariant classical field theory) covariant (polysymplectic) Hamiltonian field theory, where momenta correspond to derivatives of fields with respect to all world coordinatesG. Giachetta, L. Mangiarotti, G. Sardanashvily, Covariant Hamiltonian equations for field theory, J. Phys. A 32 (1999) 6629–6642; . the second Noether theorem in a very general setting of reducible degenerate Grassmann-graded Lagrangian systems on an arbitrary manifoldG. Giachetta, L. Mangiarotti, G. Sardanashvily, On the notion of gauge symmetries of generic Lagrangian field theory, J. Math. Phys. 50 (2009) 012903; . geometric formulation of classicalG. Sardanashvily, Hamiltonian time-dependent mechanics, J. Math. Phys. 39 (1998) 2714–2729. and quantumL.Mangiarotti, G. Sardanashvily, Quantum mechanics with respect to different reference frames, J. Math. Phys. 48 (2007) 082104; . non-autonomous mechanics on fiber bundles over generalization of the Liouville–Arnold, Nekhoroshev and Mishchenko–Fomenko theorems on completely and partially integrable and superintegrable Hamiltonian systems to the case of non-compact invariant submanifoldsE. Fiorani, G. Sardanashvily, Global action-angle coordinates for completely integrable systems with non-compact invariant submanifolds, J. Math. Phys. 48 (2007) 032901; . cohomology of the variational bicomplex of graded differential forms of finite jet order on an infinite order jet manifold.G. Sardanashvily, Graded infinite order jet manifolds, Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 4 (2007) 1335–1362;

Gennadi Sardanashvily has published more than 400 scientific works, including 28 books.

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References

External links Personal page at Moscow State University (in Russian) Gennadi Sardanashvily's personal site Gennadi Sardanashvily's site at Google Scientific Biography List of publications at ResearchGate