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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

The Lagrangian formulation of classical field theories and in particular general relativity leads to a coordinate-free, fully covariant analysis of these constrained systems. This paper applies multisymplectic techniques to obtain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 G. Esposito , C. Stornaiolo , G. Gionti

Covariant (polysymplectic) Hamiltonian field theory is formulated as a particular Lagrangian theory on a polysymplectic phase space that enables one to quantize it in the framework of familiar quantum field theory.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

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

Theories with an infinite number of derivatives are described by non-local Lagrangians for which the standard Hamiltonian formalism cannot be applied. Hamiltonians of special types of non-local theories can be constructed by means of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-16 Ivan Kolar , Anupam Mazumdar

We present a covariant multisymplectic formulation for the Einstein-Palatini (or Metric-Affine) model of General Relativity (without energy-matter sources). As it is described by a first-order affine Lagrangian (in the derivatives of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Jordi Gaset , Narciso Román-Roy

A geometric multisymplectic formulation of the classical BRST symmetry of constrained first-order classical field theories is described. To effect this we introduce graded analogues of the bundles and manifolds of the multisymplectic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 S. P. Hrabak

This work develops a procedure to find classes of Lagrangian densities that describe generalizations of the Abelian Maxwell-Higgs, the Chern-Simons-Higgs and the Maxwell-Chern-Simons-Higgs models. The investigation focuses on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-17 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes , I. Zafalan

The Hamiltonian formulation for the mechanical systems with reparametrization-invariant Lagrangians, depending on the worldline external curvatures is given, which is based on the use of moving frame. A complete sets of constraints are…

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

We present a geometric algorithm for obtaining consistent solutions to systems of partial differential equations, mainly arising from singular covariant first-order classical field theories. This algorithm gives an intrinsic description of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 M. de Leon , J. Marin-Solano , J. C. Marrero , M. C. Munoz-Lecanda , N. Roman-Roy

The well-known geometric approach to field theory is based on description of classical fields as sections of fibred manifolds, e.g. bundles with a structure group in gauge theory. In this approach, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sardanashvily

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

A general variational principle of classical fields with a Lagrangian containing the field quantity and its derivatives of up to the N-th order is presented. Noether's theorem is derived. The generalized Hamilton-Jacobi's equation for the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Zhaoyan Wu

A formulation of singular classical theories (determined by degenerate Lagrangians) without constraints is presented. A partial Hamiltonian formalism in the phase space having an initially arbitrary number of momenta (which can be smaller…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Steven Duplij

A Hamiltonian analysis of models given by a three-form field with a generic potential coupled to general relativity in four dimensions is performed. This kind of fields are naturally present in string theory and cosmological scenarios. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 David Brizuela , Iñaki Garay

The dynamics of a class of nonsymmetric gravitational theories is presented in Hamiltonian form. The derivation begins with the first-order action, treating the generalized connection coefficients as the canonical coordinates and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 M. A. Clayton

A generalised canonical formulation of gravity is devised for foliations of spacetime with codimension $n\ge1$. The new formalism retains n-dimensional covariance and is especially suited to 2+2 decompositions of spacetime. It is also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 James D. E. Grant , Ian G. Moss

The k-symplectic formulation of field theories is especially simple, since only tangent and cotangent bundles are needed in its description. Its defining elements show a close relationship with those in the symplectic formulation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Xavier Gracia , Ruben Martin , Narciso Roman-Roy

The multisymplectic Hamiltonian formalism is a generalization of the Hamiltonian formalism that manifestly preserves covariance in the description of fields and that has been proposed as a possible framework for developing a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 José Francisco Pérez-Barragán

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