The method of Ostrogradsky, quantization, and a move toward a ghost-free future

DOI10.1063/1.3257179zbMATH Open1304.81116OpenAlexW2031736786MaRDI QIDQ3583706FDOQ3583706

M. C. Nucci, P. G. L. Leach

Publication date: 17 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3257179

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationLagrangian field theoryelementary particle symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10)

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• First integrals and Hamiltonians of some classes of ODEs of maximal symmetry

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