Reductions of topologically massive gravity I: Hamiltonian analysis of second order degenerate Lagrangians

DOI10.1063/1.5021948zbMath1383.83108arXiv1701.08494OpenAlexW2583523650MaRDI QIDQ3134149

Oğul Esen, Filiz Çağatay Uçgun, Hasan Gümral

Publication date: 8 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08494

zbMATH Keywords

topologically massive gravityHamiltonian formalismsDirac-Bergmann constraintGotay-Nester-Hinds algorithmSkinner-Rusk formalisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

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A Hamilton–Jacobi formalism for higher order implicit Lagrangians ⋮ Dirac’s analysis and Ostrogradskii’s theorem for a class of second-order degenerate Lagrangians ⋮ Reductions of topologically massive gravity II. First order realizations of second order Lagrangians ⋮ On the geometry of the Schmidt-Legendre transformation

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