Hamiltonian analysis for linearly acceleration-dependent Lagrangians

DOI10.1063/1.4954804zbMATH Open1347.70029arXiv1310.5750OpenAlexW2466195527WikidataQ62038285 ScholiaQ62038285MaRDI QIDQ3178327FDOQ3178327

Rosario Gómez-Cortés, Alberto Molgado, Efraín Rojas, Miguel Cruz

Publication date: 11 July 2016

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

Abstract: We study the constrained Ostrogradski-Hamilton framework for the equations of motion provided by mechanical systems described by second-order derivative actions with a linear dependence in the accelerations. We stress out the peculiar features provided by the surface terms arising for this type of theories and we discuss some important properties for this kind of actions in order to pave the way for the construction of a well defned quantum counterpart by means of canonical methods. In particular, we analyse in detail the constraint structure for these theories and its relation to the inherent conserved quantities where the associated energies together with a Noether charge may be identifed. The constraint structure is fully analyzed without the introduction of auxiliary variables, as proposed in recent works involving higher order Lagrangians. Finally, we also provide some examples where our approach is explicitly applied and emphasize the way in which our original arrangement results in propitious for the Hamiltonian formulation of covariant feld theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5750

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33)

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