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We present a set of well-posed constraint-preserving boundary conditions for a first-order in time, second-order in space, harmonic formulation of the Einstein equations. The boundary conditions are tested using robust stability, linear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jennifer Seiler , Bela Szilagyi , Denis Pollney , Luciano Rezzolla

In a two-dimensional AdS space, a dynamical boundary of AdS space was described by a one-dimensional quantum-mechanical Hamiltonian with a coupling between the bulk and boundary system. In this paper, we present a Lagrangian corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-03 Wontae Kim , Mungon Nam

The path integral approach to quantum mechanics requires a substantial generalisation to describe the dynamics of systems confined to bounded domains. Non-local boundary conditions can be introduced in Feynman's approach by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Asorey , J. Clemente-Gallardo , J. M. Munoz-Castaneda

The aim of this paper is to develop a constraint algorithm for singular classical field theories in the framework of $k$-cosymplectic geometry. Since these field theories are singular, we need to introduce the notion of $k$-precosymplectic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Xavier Gràcia , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

We introduce a new type of boundary conditions, {\it smooth boundary conditions}, for numerical studies of quantum lattice systems. In a number of circumstances, these boundary conditions have substantially smaller finite-size effects than…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Vekic , S. R. White

The boundary conditions of the bosonic string theory in non-zero $B$-field background are equivalent to the second class constraints of a discretized version of the theory. By projecting the original canonical coordinates onto the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 M. A. De Andrade , M. A. Santos , I. V. Vancea

In this paper we explore the idea of looking at the Dirac quantisation conditions as $\hbar$-dependent constraints on the tangent bundle to phase-space. Starting from the path-integral version of classical mechanics and using the natural…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Ennio Gozzi

The way of finding all the constraints in the Hamiltonian formulation of singular (in particular, gauge) theories is called the Dirac procedure. The constraints are naturally classified according to the correspondig stages of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 D. M. Gitman , I. V. Tyutin

Dirac's conjecture, that secondary first-class constraints generate transformations that do not change the physical system's state, has various counterexamples. Since no matching gauge conditions can be imposed, the Dirac bracket cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Mauricio Valenzuela

In a series of papers, we will develop systematically the basic spectral theory of (self-adjoint) boundary value problems for operators of Dirac type. We begin in this paper with the characterization of (self-adjoint) boundary conditions…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jochen Brüning , Matthias Lesch

We analyze constrained quantum systems where the dynamics do not preserve the constraints. This is done in particular for the restriction of a quantum particle in Euclidean n-space to a curved submanifold, and we propose a method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hendrik Grundling , C. A. Hurst

Outer boundary conditions for strongly and symmetric hyperbolic formulations of 3D Einstein's field equations with a live gauge condition are discussed. The boundary conditions have the property that they ensure constraint propagation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

Part I of this paper introduced the infinite dimensional Lagrange-Dirac theory for physical systems on the space of differential forms over a smooth manifold with boundary. This approach is particularly well-suited for systems involving…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 François Gay-Balmaz , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Hiroaki Yoshimura

The Dirac method of canonical quantization of theories with second class constraints has to be modified if the constraints depend on time explicitly. A solution of the problem was given by Gitman and Tyutin. In the present work we propose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Gadjiev , R. G. Jafarov

A finite dimensional system with a quadratic Hamiltonian constraint is Dirac quantized in holomorphic, antiholomorphic and mixed representations. A unique inner product is found by imposing Hermitian conjugacy relations on an operator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Jorma Louko

We present the Dirac Hamiltonian formalism for a pair of $1$-form fields with a topological-like potential coupled to first-order gravity in three-dimensional spacetime. By considering the complete phase space, we derive the full structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Omar Rodríguez-Tzompantzi

We study quantum field theories with boundary by utilizing non-invertible symmetries. We consider three kinds of boundary conditions of the four dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory at the critical point as examples. The weights…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Masataka Koide , Yuta Nagoya , Satoshi Yamaguchi

Boundary conditions play a crucial role in the path-integral approach to quantum gravity and quantum cosmology, as well as in the current attempts to understand the one-loop semiclassical properties of quantum field theories. Within this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan G. Avramidi , Giampiero Esposito

We present a construction of harmonic functions on bounded domains for the spectral fractional Laplacian operator and we classify them in terms of their divergent profile at the boundary. This is used to establish and solve boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Nicola Abatangelo , Louis Dupaigne

Charges associated with gauge symmetries are defined on boundaries of spacetimes. But these constructions typically involve divergent quantities when considering asymptotic boundaries. Different prescriptions exist to address this problem,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Robert McNees , Céline Zwikel