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Classical background independence is reflected in Lagrangian general relativity through covariance under the full diffeomorphism group. We show how this independence can be maintained in a Hamilton-Jacobi approach that does not accord…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-22 Donald Salisbury , Jürgen Renn , Kurt Sundermeyer

This papers is concerned with multisymplectic formalisms which are the frameworks for Hamiltonian theories for fields theory. Our main purpose is to study the observable $(n-1)$-forms which allows one to construct observable functionals on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic Helein , Joseph Kouneiher

The Hamiltonian description of classical gauge theories is a very well studied subject. The two best known approaches, namely the covariant and canonical Hamiltonian formalisms have received a lot of attention in the literature. However, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-01 Alejandro Corichi , Juan D. Reyes , Tatjana Vukasinac

The massive non-Abelian gauge fields are quantized Lorentz-covariantly in the Hamiltonian path-integral formalism. In the quantization, the Lorentz condition, as a necessary constraint, is introduced initially and incorporated into the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Jun-Chen Su

We present a new multisymplectic framework for second-order classical field theories which is based on an extension of the unified Lagrangian-Hamiltonian formalism to these kinds of systems. This model provides a straightforward and simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-08 Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy

We use a description based on differential forms to systematically explore the space of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Within this formalism, we propose a basis for the scalar sector at the lowest order in derivatives of the field and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-07 Jose María Ezquiaga , Juan García-Bellido , Miguel Zumalacárregui

We formulate singular classical theories without involving constraints. Applying the action principle for the action (27) we develop a partial (in the sense that not all velocities are transformed to momenta) Hamiltonian formalism in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Steven Duplij

We perform the Hamiltonian constraint analysis for a wide class of gravity theories that are invariant under spatial diffeomorphism. With very general setup, we show that different from the general relativity, the primary and secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Xian Gao

This review paper is devoted to presenting the standard multisymplectic formulation for describing geometrically classical field theories, both the regular and singular cases. First, the main features of the Lagrangian formalism are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Narciso Román-Roy

Elements of the quantization in field theory based on the covariant polymomentum Hamiltonian formalism (the De Donder-Weyl theory), a possibility of which was originally discussed in 1934 by Born and Weyl, are developed. The approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor V. Kanatchikov

A class of high-order canonical symplectic structure-preserving geometric algorithms are developed for high-quality simulations of the quantized Dirac-Maxwell theory based strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SFQED) and relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Qiang Chen , Jianyuan Xiao , Peifeng Fan

A general Hamiltonian theory for the adiabatic motion of relativistic charged particles confined by slowly-varying background electromagnetic fields is presented based on a unified Lie-transform perturbation analysis in extended phase space…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xin Tao , Anthony Chan , Alain Brizard

We lay the foundations for a quantum formalism describing the real-time evolution of particles in the Glasma phase of a heavy-ion collision, focusing on the implications of gauge invariance in the definition of the momentum of a particle in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Dana Avramescu , Carlos Lamas , Tuomas Lappi , Meijian Li , Carlos A. Salgado

It is shown that when the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian is considered without any non-covariant modifications or change of variables, its Hamiltonian formulation leads to results consistent with principles of General Relativity. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 N. Kiriushcheva , S. V. Kuzmin , C. Racknor , S. R. Valluri

This paper concerns the development and application of the multisymplectic Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for nonlinear partial differential equations. In this theory, solutions of a PDE are sections of a fiber bundle $Y$ over a base…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Jerrold E. Marsden , Steve Shkoller

The formulation of a relativistic dynamical problem as a system of Hamilton equations by respecting the principles of Relativity is a delicate task, because in their classical form the Hamilton equations require the use of a time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 Frédéric Hélein

The light-front (LF) canonical quantization of quantum chromodynamics in covariant gauge is discussed. The Dirac procedure is used to eliminate the constraints in the gauge-fixed front form theory quantum action and to construct the LF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Prem P. Srivastava , Stanley J. Brodsky

We introduce the concept of multisymplectic formalism, familiar in covariant field theory, for the study of integrable defects in 1+1 classical field theory. The main idea is the coexistence of two Poisson brackets, one for each spacetime…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 V. Caudrelier , A. Kundu

We review in simple terms the covariant approaches to the canonical formulation of classical relativistic field theories (in particular gauge field theories and general relativity) and we discuss the relationships between these approaches…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-06 Francois Gieres

The conserved charges associated to gauge symmetries are defined at a boundary component of space-time because the corresponding Noether current can be rewritten on-shell as the divergence of a superpotential. However, the latter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 B. Julia , S. Silva