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Dirac-Bergmann Constraints in Relativistic Physics: Non-Inertial Frames, Point Particles, Fields and Gravity

Mathematical Physics 2017-02-27 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

There is a review of the physical theories needing Dirac-Bergmann theory of constraints at the Hamiltonian level due to the existence of gauge symmetries. It contains: i) the treatment of systems of point particles in special relativity both in inertial and non-inertial frames with a Wigner-covariant way of eliminating relative times in relativistic bound states; ii) the description of the electro-magnetic field in relativistic atomic physics and of Yang-Mills fields in absence of Gribov ambiguity in particle physics; iii) the identification of the inertial gauge variables and of the physical variables in canonical ADM tetrad gravity in presence of the electro-magnetic field and of charged scalar point particles in asymptotically Minkowskian space-times without super-translations by means of a Shanmugadhasan canonical transformation to a York canonical basis adapted to ten of the 14 first-class constraints and the definition of the Hamiltonian Post-Minkowskian weak field limit. Review paper for a chapter of a future book

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@article{arxiv.1702.07595,
  title  = {Dirac-Bergmann Constraints in Relativistic Physics: Non-Inertial Frames, Point Particles, Fields and Gravity},
  author = {Luca Lusanna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07595},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

30 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1108.3224, arXiv:1205.2481

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