General U(N) gauge transformations in the realm of covariant Hamiltonian field theory

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-00047-3_31MaRDI QIDQ2847871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen Struckmeier, Hermine Reichau

Publication date 12 September 2013

Published in Exciting Interdisciplinary Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5754

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

Abstract: A consistent, local coordinate formulation of covariant Hamiltonian field theory is presented. While the covariant canonical field equations are equivalent to the Euler-Lagrange field equations, the covariant canonical transformation theory offers more general means for defining mappings that preserve the action functional - and hence the form of the field equations - than the usual Lagrangian description. Similar to the well-known canonical transformation theory of point dynamics, the canonical transformation rules for fields are derived from generating functions. As an interesting example, we work out the generating function of type F_2 of a general local U(N) gauge transformation and thus derive the most general form of a Hamiltonian density that is form-invariant under local U(N) gauge transformations.

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