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We discuss how to fix the gauge in the canonical treatment of Lagrangians, with finite number of degrees of freedom, endowed with time reparametrization invariance. The motion can then be described by an effective Hamiltonian acting on the…
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We determine the Rolle function in Lagrange polynomial approximation using a suitable differential equation. We then propose a device for improving the Lagrange approximation by exploiting our knowledge of the Rolle function.
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The radial part of the Klein-Gordon equation for the generalized Woods-Saxon potential is solved by using the Nikiforov-Uvarov method in the case of spatially dependent mass within the new approximation scheme to the centrifugal potential…
We investigate the necessary conditions for the two spacetimes, which are solutions to the Einstein field equations with an anisotropic matter source, to be related to each other by means of a conformal transformation. As a result, we…
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