Higher Derivatives and Canonical Formalism
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A canonical formalism for higher-derivative theories is presented on the basis of Dirac's method for constrained systems. It is shown that this formalism shares a path integral expression with Ostrogradski's canonical formalism.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9503177,
title = {Higher Derivatives and Canonical Formalism},
author = {Shinji HAMAMOTO},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9503177},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, LaTex.