Local symmetries and constraints

DOI10.1063/1.528801zbMath0704.70013MaRDI QIDQ3484400

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528801

zbMATH Keywords

phase space; Lagrangian formulation; general relativity; constraint submanifold; Poisson bracket algebra; space-time; field theory; Lagrangian field theory; local symmetries; constraint functions on phase space; Lie bracket algebra; manifold of field configurations; Noether current density; Yang- Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

53C07: Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills)

58E15: Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals

70G10: Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics

70Sxx: Classical field theories

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