Hamiltonian Dynamics for an alternative action describing Maxwell's equations
Mathematical Physics
2013-01-04 v1 math.MP
Abstract
We develop a complete Dirac's canonical analysis for an alternative action that yields Maxwell's four-dimensional equations of motion. We study in detail the full symmetries of the action by following all steps of Dirac's method in order to obtain a detailed description of symmetries. Our results indicate that such an action does not have the same symmetries than Maxwell theory, namely, the model is not a gauge theory and the number of physical degrees of freedom are different.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1301.0502,
title = {Hamiltonian Dynamics for an alternative action describing Maxwell's equations},
author = {Alberto Escalante and Omar Rodríguez Tzompantzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0502},
year = {2013}
}