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The covariant phase space method of Iyer, Lee, Wald, and Zoupas gives an elegant way to understand the Hamiltonian dynamics of Lagrangian field theories without breaking covariance. The original literature however does not systematically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Daniel Harlow , Jie-qiang Wu

Classical physics is reformulated as a constrained Hamiltonian system in the history phase space. Dynamics, i.e. the Euler-Lagrange equations, play the role of first-class constraints. This allows us to apply standard methods from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Larsson

This article seeks to relate a recent proposal for the association of a covariant Field Theory with a string or brane Lagrangian to the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism for strings and branes. It turns out that since in this special case, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. M. Baker , D. B. Fairlie

This is the first paper of a five part work in which we study the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structure of classical field theories with constraints. Our goal is to explore some of the connections between initial value constraints and gauge…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 Mark J. Gotay , James Isenberg , Jerrold E. Marsden , Richard Montgomery

Canonical formulation of quantum field theory on the Light Front (LF) is reviewed. The problem of constructing the LF Hamiltonian which gives the theory equivalent to original Lorentz and gauge invariant one is considered. We describe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Franke , Yu. V. Novozhilov , S. A. Paston , E. V. Prokhvatilov

We study the relationship between the equations of first order Lagrangian field theory on fiber bundles and the covariant Hamilton equations on the finite-dimensional polysymplectic phase space of covariant Hamiltonian field theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

The Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms of Qunatum Field Theory (QFT) are equivalent. But while Lorentz invariance can be clearly seen in the Lagrangian formalism, it is not so explicit in the Hamiltonian one. This is because time is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Sivapalan Chelvaniththilan

Canonical formulation of quantum field theory on the Light Front (LF) is reviewed. The problem of constructing the LF Hamiltonian which gives the theory equivalent to original Lorentz and gauge invariant one is considered. We describe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Franke , Yu. V. Novozhilov , S. A. Paston , E. V. Prokhvatilov

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

One classical theory, as determined by an equation of motion or set of classical trajectories, can correspond to many unitarily {\em in}equivalent quantum theories upon canonical quantization. This arises from a remarkable ambiguity, not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian Redmount , Wai-Mo Suen , Kenneth Young

We consider the Hamiltonian constraint formulation of classical field theories, which treats spacetime and the space of fields symmetrically, and utilizes the concept of momentum multivector. The gauge field is introduced to compensate for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Vaclav Zatloukal

An explicit Lorentz covariant formulation of the canonical theory for classical fields is established on a space-like hypersurface. Hamilton's equations and a Poisson bracket are defined on the space-like hypersurface. The Poisson bracket…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Hiroshi Ozaki

Using a massless scalar field as a clock variable, the Legendre transform of the group field theory Lagrangian gives a relational Hamiltonian. In the classical theory, it is natural to define 'equal relational time' Poisson brackets, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-01 Edward Wilson-Ewing

The Lagrangians and Hamiltonians of classical field theory require to comprise gauge fields in order to be form-invariant under local gauge transformations. These gauge fields have turned out to correctly describe pertaining elementary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Jürgen Struckmeier

A covariant Hamiltonian formulation generalizing De Donder-Weyl mechanics is constructed with field strengths as velocity fields. Since the teleparallel equivalents to general relativity are quadratic in field strengths, the field-strength…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 David Chester , Vipul Pandey

We consider classical and quantum mechanics for an extended Heisenberg algebra with additional canonical commutation relations for position and momentum coordinates. In our approach this additional noncommutativity is removed from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-04 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

It is argued that the massive non-Abelian gauge field theory without involving Higgs bosons may be well established on the basis of gauge-invariance principle because the dynamics of the field is gauge-invariant in the physical space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun-Chen Su

The quantization of the SU(2)$\times $U(1) gauge-symmetric electroweak theory is performed in the Hamiltonian path-integral formalism. In this quantization, we start from the Lagrangian given in the unitary gauge in which the unphysical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun-Chen Su

We formulate Lagrangian descriptors (LDs) in the path integral framework. Averaging the classical LD over fluctuations about extremal trajectories defines a quantum LD that incorporates quantum effects. Invariant manifolds, which sharply…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Javier Jiménez-López , V. J. García-Garrido

We introduce configuration space path integrals for quantum fields interacting with classical fields. We show that this can be done consistently by proving that the dynamics are completely positive directly, without resorting to master…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies