Lagrange versus symplectic algorithm for constrained systems

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/6/311MaRDI QIDQ4466161zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. J. Rothe, K. D. Rothe

Publication date 9 June 2004

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208106

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac's theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

Abstract: The systematization of the purely Lagrangean approach to constrained systems in the form of an algorithm involves the iterative construction of a generalized Hessian matrix W taking a rectangular form. This Hessian will exhibit as many left zero-modes as there are Lagrangean constraints in the theory. We apply this approach to a general Lagrangean in the first order formulation and show how the seemingly overdetermined set of equations is solved for the velocities by suitably extending W to a rectangular matrix. As a byproduct we thereby demonstrate the equivalence of the Lagrangean approach to the traditional Dirac-approach. By making use of this equivalence we show that a recently proposed symplectic algorithm does not necessarily reproduce the full constraint structure of the traditional Dirac algorithm.

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