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We formulate singular classical theories without involving constraints. Applying the action principle for the action (27) we develop a partial (in the sense that not all velocities are transformed to momenta) Hamiltonian formalism in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Steven Duplij

The classical and quantum dynamics of simple time-reparametrization- invariant models containing two degrees of freedom are studied in detail. Elimination of one ``clock'' variable through the Hamiltonian constraint leads to a description…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Ian D. Lawrie , Richard J. Epp

The generalized time-dependent harmonic oscillator is studied. Though several approaches to the solution of this model have been available, yet a new approach is presented here, which is very suitable for the study of cyclic solutions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qiong-Gui Lin

In this paper we study the vanishing inertia and viscosity limit of a second order system set in an Euclidean space, driven by a possibly nonconvex time-dependent potential satisfying very general assumptions. By means of a variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Giovanni Scilla , Francesco Solombrino

In a differential approach elaborated, we study the evolution of the parameters of Gaussian, mixed, continuous variable density matrices, whose dynamics are given by Hermitian Hamiltonians expressed as quadratic forms of the position and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Julio A. López-Saldívar , Margarita A. Man'ko , Vladimir I. Man'ko

We present a fermion model characterized by an anticommuting-parameter shift symmetry. The Hamiltonian formulation exhibits a combination of first-class and second-class constraints. We derive the well-known Dirac equation by fixing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-30 Mauricio Valenzuela

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

An extension of the Legendre transform to non-convex functions with vanishing Hessian as a mix of envelope and general solutions of the Clairaut equation is proposed. Applying this to systems with constraints, the procedure of finding a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-11 Steven Duplij

We develop a general approach for monitoring and controlling evolution of open quantum systems. In contrast to the master equations describing time evolution of density operators, here, we formulate a dynamical equation for the evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-09 M. Mohseni , A. T. Rezakhani

We study classical Hamiltonian systems in which the intrinsic proper time evolution parameter is related through a probability distribution to the physical time, which is assumed to be discrete. - This is motivated by the ``timeless''…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 H. -T. Elze

A new geometric approach to systems with boundary energy flow is developed using infinite-dimensional Dirac structures within the Lagrangian formalism. This framework satisfies a list of consistency criteria with the geometric setting of…

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

We use Dirac's method for the quantization of constrained systems in order to quantize a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker spacetime in the context of $f(Q)$ cosmology. When the coincident gauge is considered, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 N. Dimakis , A. Paliathanasis , T. Christodoulakis

We introduce a method to perform imaginary time evolution in a controllable quantum system using measurements and conditional unitary operations. By performing a sequence of weak measurements based on the desired Hamiltonian constructed by…

Exact procedures that follow Dirac's constraint quantization of gauge theories are usually technically involved and often difficult to implement in practice. We overview an "effective" scheme for obtaining the leading order semiclassical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Artur Tsobanjan

This paper develops the theory of Dirac reduction by symmetry for nonholonomic systems on Lie groups with broken symmetry. The reduction is carried out for the Dirac structures, as well as for the associated Lagrange-Dirac and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-21 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

We study dispersive decay for non-autonomous Hamiltonian systems. While the general theory for dispersion in such non-autonomous systems is largely open, it was shown \cite{kraisler2025time} that there exists a time-periodically forced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Anthony Bloch , Amir Sagiv , Stefan Steinerberger

In this paper, we present the results of our investigation relating particle dynamics and non-commutativity of space-time by using Dirac's constraint analysis. In this study, we re-parameterise the time $t=t(\tau)$ along with $x=x(\tau)$…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Partha Nandi , Sayan Kumar Pal , Ravikant Verma

The minimal Hamiltonian for a family of relativistic rotators is constructed by a direct application of the Dirac procedure for constrained systems. The Hamiltonian equations can be easily solved. It is found that the resulting motion is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Łukasz Bratek

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

The long-standing problem of time in canonical quantum gravity is the source of several conceptual and technical issues. Here, recent mathematical results are used to provide a consistent algebraic formulation of dynamical symplectic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Martin Bojowald , Artur Tsobanjan