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Efficient path planning for autonomous mobile robots is a critical problem across numerous domains, where optimizing both time and energy consumption is paramount. This paper introduces a novel methodology that considers the dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Víctor C. da S. Campos , Armando A. Neto , Douglas G. Macharet

We provide a simultaneous derivation of the Dirac bracket and of the equations of motion for second-class constrained systems when the constraints are time-dependent. The necessity of time-dependent gauge-fixing conditions is shown in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Nuno Barros e Sá

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

A toy model (suggested by Klauder) is analyzed from the perspective of First Class and Second Class Dirac constrained systems. The comparison is made by turning a First Class into a Second Class system with the introduction of suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Eyo Eyo Ita , Chopin Soo , Abraham Tan

We consider classical and quantum mechanics related to an additional noncommutativity, symmetric in position and momentum coordinates. We show that such mechanical system can be transformed to the corresponding one which allows employment…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

It is demonstrated that power-laws which are modified by logarithmic corrections arise in supercorrelated systems. Their characteristic feature is the energy attributed to a state (or value of a general cost function) which depends…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. -T. Elze , T. Kodama

A method for deriving the Schrodinger equation for Lagrangian path integral with scaling of local time is given.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K Kapoor , Pankaj Sharan

Extension of Feynman's path integral to quantum mechanics of noncommuting spatial coordinates is considered. The corresponding formalism for noncommutative classical dynamics related to quadratic Lagrangians (Hamiltonians) is formulated.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

The two-particle models in de Sitter space-time with time-asymmetric retarded-advanced interactions are constructed. Particular cases of the field-type electromagnetic and scalar interactions are considered. The manifestly covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Askold Duviryak

Hamiltonian systems with functionally dependent constraints (irregular systems), for which the standard Dirac procedure is not directly applicable, are discussed. They are classified according to their behavior in the vicinity of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Olivera Miskovic , Jorge Zanelli

Path integrals for particles in curved spaces can be used to compute trace anomalies in quantum field theories, and more generally to study properties of quantum fields coupled to gravity in first quantization. While their construction in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Olindo Corradini , Edoardo Vassura

In order to quantize systems involving second-class constraints, one should use Dirac bracket instead of Poisson bracket. Furthermore, one can specify a star product in which the term linear in $\hbar$ is proportional to the Dirac bracket.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Bing-Sheng Lin , Tai-Hua Heng

Some ideas and remarks are presented concerning a possible Lagrangian approach to the study of internal boundary conditions relating integrable fields at the junction of two domains. The main example given in the article concerns single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Bowcock , E. Corrigan , C. Zambon

These lectures are intended for graduate students who want to acquire a working knowledge of path integral methods in a wide variety of fields in physics. In general the presentation is elementary and path integrals are developed in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-01 R. Rosenfelder

The constrained Hamiltonian systems admitting no gauge conditions are considered. The methods to deal with such systems are discussed and developed. As a concrete application, the relationship between the Dirac and reduced phase space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Mikhail S. Plyushchay , Alexander V. Razumov

Systems under holonomic constraints are classified within the generalized Hamiltonian framework as second-class constraints systems. We show that each system of point particles with holonomic constraints has a hidden gauge symmetry which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 M. I. Krivoruchenko , Amand Faessler , A. A. Raduta , C. Fuchs

The propagator for a certain class of two time-dependent coupled and driven harmonic oscillators with time-varying angular frequencies and masses is evaluated by path integration. This is simply done through suitably chosen generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 F. Benamira , L. Guechi

This paper explores the potential of Lagrangian duality for learning applications that feature complex constraints. Such constraints arise in many science and engineering domains, where the task amounts to learning optimization problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Terrence WK Mak , Cuong Tran , Federico Baldo , Michele Lombardi

The existence of a Lagrangian description for the second-order Riccati equation is analyzed and the results are applied to the study of two different nonlinear systems both related with the generalized Riccati equation. The Lagrangians are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 José F. Cariñena , Manuel F. Rañada , Mariano Santander

D-dimensional constrained systems are studied with stochastic Lagrangian and\break Hamiltonian. It is shown that stochastic consistency conditions are second class constraints and Lagrange multiplier fields can be determined in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 R. Mochizuki , K. Yoshida