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A modification of the canonical quantization procedure for systems with time-dependent second-class constraints is discussed and applied to the quantization of the relativistic particle in a plane wave. The time dependence of constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

Using Dirac's approach to constrained dynamics, the Hamiltonian formulation of regular higher order Lagrangians is developed. The conventional description of such systems due to Ostrogradsky is recovered. However, unlike the latter, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Jan Govaerts , Maher S. Rashid

Quantum systems with constraints are often considered in modern theoretical physcics. All realistic field models based on the idea of gauge symmetry are of this type. A partial case of constraints being linear in coordinate and momenta…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Yu. Shvedov

Lie-Poisson gauge formalism provides a semiclassical description of noncommutative $U(1)$ gauge theory with Lie algebra type noncommutativity. Using the Dirac approach to constrained Hamiltonian systems, we focus on a class of Lie-Poisson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 Francesco Bascone , Maxim Kurkov

We perform a Hamiltonian analysis of a large class of scalar-tensor Lagrangians which depend quadratically on the second derivatives of a scalar field. By resorting to a convenient choice of dynamical variables, we show that the Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 David Langlois , Karim Noui

We use Lagrangian formalism and jet spaces to derive a computational model to simulate multibody dynamics with holonomic constraints. Our approach avoids the traditional problems of drift-off and spurious oscillations. Hence even long…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jukka Tuomela , Teijo Arponen , Villesamuli Normi

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 this article one introduces a formalism of classical mechanics where complex Lagrangian functions are admitted. The results include complex versions of the Lagrangian function, of the Euler-Lagrange equation, of the Hamilton principle, a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Sergio Giardino

Inspired by problems arising in the geometrical treatment of Yang-Mills theories and Palatini's gravity, the covariant formulation of Hamiltonian dynamical systems as a Hamiltonian field theory of dimension $1+0$ on a manifold with boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-12 A. Ibort , A. Spivak

The various phase spaces involved in the dynamics of parametrized nonrelativistic Hamiltonian systems are displayed by using Crnkovic and Witten's covariant canonical formalism. It is also pointed out that in Dirac's canonical formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauricio Mondragon , Merced Montesinos

We study Lagrangian systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom that are non-local in time. We obtain an extension of Noether theorem and Noether identities to this kind of Lagrangians. A Hamiltonian formalism is then set up for this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-18 Carlos Heredia , Josep Llosa

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 purpose of this paper is to study in detail the constraint structure of the Hamiltonian and symplectic-Lagrangian descriptions for the scalar and electromagnetic fields in the presence of spatial boundaries. We carefully discuss the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 J. Fernando Barbero G. , Jorge Prieto , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

The Dirac constraint formalism is applied to linearized gravity to determine the structure of constraints and construct the canonical Hamiltonian. The diffeomorphism invariance of the Lagrangian is retrieved by a nontrivial generalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ramin N. Ghalati

In this paper we show how to compute algorithmically the full set of algebraically independent constraints for singular mechanical and field-theoretical models with polynomial Lagrangians. If a model under consideration is not singular as a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Vladimir P. Gerdt , Daniel Robertz

The analysis of the dynamics of a material point perfectly constrained to a submanifold of the three-dimensional euclidean space and subjected to a locally conservative force's field, namely a force's field corresponding to a closed but not…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-29 Gavriel Segre

We study the Hamiltonian formalisms of the second order degenerate Cl\`ement and Sar{\i}o\u{g}lu-Tekin Lagrangians. The Dirac-Bergmann constraint algorithm is employed while arriving at the total Hamiltonian functions and the Hamilton's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Filiz Çağatay-Uçgun , Oğul Esen , Hasan Gümral

The present article introduces a generalization of the (multisymplectic) Hamiltonian field theory for a Lagrangian density, allowing the formulation of this kind of field theories for variational problem of more general nature than those…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guadalupe Quijón , Santiago Capriotti

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

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