Hamiltonian description of the parametrized scalar field in bounded spatial regions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/10/105002zbMATH Open1338.83024arXiv1507.05438OpenAlexW3105016738MaRDI QIDQ2811455FDOQ2811455

Authors: Juan Margalef-Bentabol, J. Fernando Barbero G., Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor 

Publication date: 10 June 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the Hamiltonian formulation for a parametrized scalar field in a regular bounded spatial region subject to Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin boundary conditions. We generalize the work carried out by a number of authors on parametrized field systems to the interesting case where spatial boundaries are present. The configuration space of our models contains both smooth scalar fields defined on the spatial manifold and spacelike embeddings from the spatial manifold to a target spacetime endowed with a fixed Lorentzian background metric. We pay particular attention to the geometry of the infinite dimensional manifold of embeddings and the description of the relevant geometric objects: the symplectic form on the primary constraint submanifold and the Hamiltonian vector fields defined on it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05438

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian formulationbounded domainsparametrized field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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