Divergences in formal variational calculus and boundary terms in Hamiltonian formalism
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It is shown how to extend the formal variational calculus in order to incorporate integrals of divergences into it. Such a generalization permits to study nontrivial boundary problems in field theory on the base of canonical formalism.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511130,
title = {Divergences in formal variational calculus and boundary terms in Hamiltonian formalism},
author = {Vladimir O. Soloviev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511130},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages, TeX macro included, no figures, talk given at "Symposium on Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics", Warsaw, May 1995