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Field theoretical models with first order Lagrangean can be formulated in a covariant Hamiltonian formalism. In this article, the geometrical construction of the Gerstenhaber structure that encodes the equations of motion is explained for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cornelius Paufler

The Lagrangians and Hamiltonians of classical field theory require to comprise gauge fields in order to be form-invariant under local gauge transformations. These gauge fields have turned out to correctly describe pertaining elementary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Jürgen Struckmeier

We present a method for the Hamiltonian formulation of field theories that are based on Lagrangians containing second derivatives. The new feature of our formalism is that all four partial derivatives of the field variables are initially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Leclerc

We consider the geometric formulation of the Hamiltonian formalism for field theory in terms of {\em Hamiltonian connections} and {\em multisymplectic forms}. In this framework the covariant Hamilton equations for Mechanics and field theory…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauro Francaviglia , Marcella Palese , Ekkehart Winterroth

The goal of this contribution is to introduce the Hamiltonian formalism of theoretical mechanics for analysing motion in generic linear and non-linear dynamical systems, including particle accelerators. This framework allows the derivation…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Yannis Papaphilippou

In this paper we study a Hamiltonization procedure for mechanical systems with velocity-depending (nonholonomic) constraints. We first rewrite the nonholonomic equations of motion as Euler-Lagrange equations, with a Lagrangian that follows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-27 T. Mestdag , A. M. Bloch , O. E. Fernandez

In this paper we introduce a geometric description of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian classical field theories on Lie algebroids in the framework of k-symplectic geometry. We discuss the relation between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-28 M. de Leon , D. Martin de Diego , M. Salgado , S. Vilariño

A Noether-enhanced Legendre transformation from Lagrange densities to energy-momentum tensors is developed into an alternative framework for formulating classical field equations. This approach offers direct access to the Hamiltonian while…

General Physics · Physics 2019-02-21 Hans Christian Öttinger

In $n$-dimensional classical field theory one studies maps from $n$-dimensional manifolds in such a way that classical mechanics is recovered for $n=1$. In previous papers we have shown that the standard polysymplectic framework in which…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Ronen Brilleslijper , Oliver Fabert

New geometric structures that relate the lagrangian and hamiltonian formalisms defined upon a singular lagrangian are presented. Several vector fields are constructed in velocity space that give new and precise answers to several topics…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xavier Gracia , Josep M. Pons

In the framework of started in Ref.[1] construction procedure of the general superfield quantization method for gauge theories in Lagrangian formalism the rules for Hamiltonian formulation of general superfield theory of fields (GSTF) are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Reshetnyak

Classical field theory is considered as a theory of unparametrized surfaces embedded in a configuration space, which accommodates, in a symmetric way, spacetime positions and field values. Dynamics is defined via the (Hamiltonian)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Vaclav Zatloukal

In a first part we propose an introduction to multisymplectic formalisms, which are generalisations of Hamilton's formulation of Mechanics to the calculus of variations with several variables: we give some physical motivations, related to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic Helein

Effective Lagrangians containing arbitrary interactions of massive vector fields are quantized within the Hamiltonian path integral formalism. It is proven that correct Hamiltonian quantization of these models yields the same result as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Carsten Grosse-Knetter

We discuss in this paper the canonical structure of classical field theory in finite dimensions within the {\it{pataplectic}} Hamiltonian formulation, where we put forward the role of Legendre correspondance. We define the generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frédéric Hélein , Joseph Kouneiher

For a variety of diffeomorphism-invariant field theories describing hypersurface motions (such as relativistic M-branes in space-time dimension M+2) we perform a Hamiltonian reduction ``at level 0'', showing that a simple algebraic function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Jens Hoppe , Tudor Ratiu

Action-dependent field theories are systems where the Lagrangian or Hamiltonian depends on new variables that encode the action. They model a larger class of field theories, including non-conservative behavior, while maintaining a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset Rifà , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

The relationship between the Hamiltonian and Lagrangean functions in analytical mechanics is a type of duality. The two functions, while distinct, are both descriptive functions encoding the behavior of the same dynamical system. One…

General Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 John E. Hurtado

We discuss the dynamics of a particular two-dimensional (2D) physical system in the four dimensional (4D) (non-)commutative phase space by exploiting the consistent Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms based on the symplectic structures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Malik

It is shown that any singular Lagrangian theory: 1) can be formulated without the use of constraints by introducing a Clairaut-type version of the Hamiltonian formalism; 2) leads to a special kind of nonabelian gauge theory which is similar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Steven Duplij