Gauge transformations for higher-order Lagrangians

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/28/24/016zbMATH Open0900.70242arXivhep-th/9509094OpenAlexW2043642025MaRDI QIDQ4345720FDOQ4345720

X. Gràcia, J. M. Pons

Publication date: 19 August 1998

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

Abstract: Noether's symmetry transformations for higher-order lagrangians are studied. A characterization of these transformations is presented, which is useful to find gauge transformations for higher-order singular lagrangians. The case of second-order lagrangians is studied in detail. Some examples that illustrate our results are given; in particular, for the lagrangian of a relativistic particle with curvature, lagrangian gauge transformations are obtained, though there are no hamiltonian gauge generators for them.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9509094

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zbMATH Keywords

second-order LagrangiansNoether's symmetry transformationrelativistic particle with curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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