Dirac constraints in field theory: Lifts of Hamiltonian systems to the cotangent bundle

DOI10.1063/1.528175zbMath0656.70011MaRDI QIDQ3804264

Walter Oevel

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528175

zbMATH Keywords

cotangent bundle; Korteweg-de Vries equation; Hamiltonian system; lifts; Dirac's theory of constraints; degenerate Lagrangian formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70H05: Hamilton's equations

37J99: Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

70Sxx: Classical field theories

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