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

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/47/321MaRDI QIDQ4533726zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

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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