Revisiting the gauge principle: enforcing constants of motion as constraints

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/20/205202zbMATH Open1189.81147arXiv0905.3807OpenAlexW2084818784MaRDI QIDQ3565200FDOQ3565200

Authors: Petr Jizba, J. M. Pons 

Publication date: 2 June 2010

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

Abstract: In this paper we examine an alternative formulation of the gauge principle in which the emphasis is shifted from the symmetry transformations to their generators. We show that the gauge principle can be entirely reformulated in terms of promoting constants of motion - which generate rigid symmetries - to constraints - which generate gauge symmetries. In our exposition we first explain the basic philosophy on mechanical systems, and then with the help of De Donder--Weyl formalism we extend our scenario also to a field-theoretical setting. To put some flesh on bare bones we demonstrate our method in numerous examples, including the massive relativistic particle, the Nambu--Goto string and relativistic field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3807

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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