Dirac's conjecture

DOI10.1007/BF00670695MaRDI QIDQ1340322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bichu Wu

Publication date 11 December 1994

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00670695

zbMATH Keywords

constrained Hamiltonian systemsfirst-class constraintsgauge transformationsgeneralized canonical formalismgeneralized Poincaré-Cartan integral invariantsingular Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Classical field theories (70Sxx) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Review text

Dirac conjectured that all first-class constraints for a singular Lagrangian generate gauge transformations. The author shows that the existence of the generalized Poincaré-Cartan integral invariant for a system is equivalent to Dirac's conjecture being true for this system. He gives an example for which this integral invariant does not exist. The discussion is heuristic, and the paper is only marginally comprehensible.

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Cites work

• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
• Gauge transformations in Dirac theory of constrained systems
• Poincaré Cartan integral invariant for constrained systems
• Poincaré–Cartan integral invariant and canonical transformations for singular Lagrangians
• Poincaré–Cartan integral invariant and canonical transformations for singular Lagrangians: An addendum
• Symmetry in a constrained Hamiltonian system with singular higher-order Lagrangian

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• Gauge symmetries and Dirac conjecture

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