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In this work, we investigate gauge theories in two dimensions nonperturbatively using the Hamiltonian truncation approach. Working on a spatial interval and adopting the axial gauge, we remove all gauge field degrees of freedom and express…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-12 Rachel Houtz , James Ingoldby

Dirac's quantization of the Maxwell theory on non-commutative spaces has been considered. First class constraints were found which are the same as in classical electrodynamics. The gauge covariant quantization of the non-linear equations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Kruglov

We apply Dirac's gauge fixing procedure to (2+1)-gravity with vanishing cosmological constant. For general gauge fixing conditions based on two point particles, this yields explicit expressions for the Dirac bracket. We explain how gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-01 Catherine Meusburger , Torsten Schönfeld

We consider (2+1)-gravity with vanishing cosmological constant as a constrained dynamical system. By applying Dirac's gauge fixing procedure, we implement the constraints and determine the Dirac bracket on the gauge-invariant phase space.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-05 Catherine Meusburger , Torsten Schönfeld

In this paper the quantization of the 2$+$1-dimensional gravity couplet to the massless Dirac field is carried out. The problem is solved by the application of the new Dynamic Quantization Method [1,2]. It is well-known that in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. N. Vergeles

Recently, there were works claiming that path integral quantisation of gauge theories necessarily requires relaxation of Lagrangian constraints. As has also been noted in the literature, it is of course wrong since there perfectly exist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-12 Alexey Golovnev , Kirill Russkov

The Dirac-Bergmann algorithm for the Hamiltonian analysis of constrained systems is a nice and powerful tool, widely used for quantization and non-perturbative counting of degrees of freedom. However, certain aspects of its application to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Kirill Russkov

We consider gauge theories from the free evolution point of view, in which initial data satisfying constraints of a theory are given. Because the constraints are compatible with the field equations they remain so. We study a model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 David Hilditch , Ronny Richter

We analyse two principal approaches to the quantization of physical models worked out to date. There are the Faddeev-Popov "heuristic" approach, based on fixing a gauge in the FP path integrals formalism, and the "fundamental" approach by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Leonid Lantsman

We present a pseudoclassical mechanics model which exhibits gauge symmetry and time-reparametrization invariance. As such, first- and second-class constraints restrict the phase space, and the Hamiltonian weakly vanishes. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-07 Mauricio Valenzuela

We apply Dirac's Hamiltonian approach to study the canonical structure of the teleparallel form of general relativity without matter fields. It is shown, without any gauge fixing, that the Hamiltonian has the generalized Dirac-ADM form, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-27 M. Blagojevic , I. A. Nikolic

The harmonic formulation of Einstein's field equations is considered, where the gauge conditions are introduced as dynamical constraints. The difference between the fully constrained approach (used in analytical approximations) and the free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Bona , Dana Alic

The aim of the present article is to describe the symmetry structure of a general gauge (singular) theory, and, in particular, to relate the structure of gauge transformations with the constraint structure of a theory in the Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 D. M. Gitman , I. V. Tyutin

The Dirac procedure for dealing with constraints is applied to the quantization of gauge theories on the light front. The light cone gauge is used in conjunction with the first class constraints that arise and the resulting Dirac brackets…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 D. G. C. McKeon , Chenguang Zhao

A standard tenet of canonical quantum gravity is that evolution generated by a Hamiltonian constraint is just a gauge transformation on the phase space and therefore does not change the physical state. The basis for this belief is a theorem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-12 Julian Barbour , Brendan Z. Foster

Dirac algorithm allows to construct Hamiltonian systems for singular systems, and so contributing to its successful quantization. A drawback of this method is that the resulting quantized theory does not have manifest Lorentz invariance.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Hernán Cendra , Santiago Capriotti

A complete analysis of the consequences of introducing a set of holonomic gauge fixing constraints (to fix the dynamics) into a singular Lagrangian is performed. It is shown in general that the dynamical system originated from the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Josep M. Pons

In a recent work we showed that for a Hamiltonian system with constraints, the set of constraints can be investigated in first and second class constraint chains. We show here that using this "chain by chain" method for an arbitrary system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A Shirzad , F Loran

A review is given of the canonical reduction of gauge and relativistic particle theories and of a new covariant rest-frame instant form of dynamics according to Dirac's theory of constraints

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Luca Lusanna

A systematic procedure is proposed for deriving all the gauge symmetries of the general, not necessarily variational, equations of motion. For the variational equations, this procedure reduces to the Dirac-Bergmann algorithm for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov