Hamiltonian systems with boundaries

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2000/10/042MaRDI QIDQ5928826zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maxim Zabzine

Publication date 4 April 2001

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0005142

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: Lately, to provide a solid ground for quantization of the open string theory with a constant B-field, it has been proposed to treat the boundary conditions as hamiltonian constraints. It seems that this proposal is quite general and should be applicable to a wide range of models defined on manifolds with boundaries. The goal of the present paper is to show how the boundary conditions can arise as constraints in a purely algebraic fashion within the Hamiltonian approach without any reference to the Lagrangian formulation of the theory. The construction of the boundary Dirac brackets is also given and some subtleties are pointed out. We consider four examples of field theories with boundaries: the topological sigma model, the open string theory with and without a constant $B$-field and electrodynamics with topological term. A curious result for electrodynamics on a manifold with boundaries is presented.

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