How relativity determines the Hamiltonian description of an object in classical mechanics

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(03)00337-2zbMATH Open1011.70015MaRDI QIDQ1867913FDOQ1867913

Authors: Thomas F. Jordan 

Publication date: 2 April 2003

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

canonical transformationLorentz transformationGalilei groupPoisson bracket relationsrelativity group generatorsPoincaré group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

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