Classical mechanics with respect to an observer’s past light cone

DOI10.1063/1.527809MaRDI QIDQ3754930zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. H. Derrick

Publication date 1987

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527809

zbMATH Keywords

probability distributioncanonical transformationHamiltonian approachDirac matricesspinor formdynamical variablespast light-cone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

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Cites work

• Eight-dimensional spinor representation of the Poincaré group
• Forms of Relativistic Dynamics

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• Complete orthonormal sets on the past light cone. I. Functions belonging to mass zero and helicity s
• Observations and predictions from past lightcones
• Reductions of topologically massive gravity I: Hamiltonian analysis of second order degenerate Lagrangians

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