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

DOI10.1063/1.527809zbMATH Open0618.70008OpenAlexW2076755213MaRDI QIDQ3754930FDOQ3754930

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

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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)

Cites Work

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

Cited In (3)

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

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