On the invalidity of Dirac's conjecture for a system with a singular higher-order Lagrangian

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/47/321zbMATH Open1008.70023OpenAlexW2022993648WikidataQ122894302 ScholiaQ122894302MaRDI QIDQ4533726FDOQ4533726

Authors: Xiaoyue Jin, Z. P. Li 

Publication date: 11 June 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/34/47/321

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zbMATH Keywords

counterexampleDirac's conjecturePoincaré-Cartan integral invariantsingular higher-order Lagrangiancanonical Noether's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H50) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

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• Cawley's counterexample to Dirac's conjecture as a curved spacetime
• The Hamilton-Jacobi analysis of dynamical systems with singular higher-order Lagrangians

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