Geometric Lagrangian approach to the physical degree of freedom count in field theory

DOI10.1063/1.5008740zbMATH Open1391.70063arXiv1710.01371OpenAlexW3103121579WikidataQ129895325 ScholiaQ129895325MaRDI QIDQ4565447FDOQ4565447

Authors: Bogar Díaz, Merced Montesinos 

Publication date: 12 June 2018

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

Abstract: To circumvent some technical difficulties faced by the geometric Lagrangian approach to the physical degree of freedom count presented in the work of Diaz, Higuita, and Montesinos, J. Math. Phys. 55, 122901 (2014) that prevent its direct implementation to field theory, in this paper, we slightly modify the geometric Lagrangian approach in such a way that its resulting version works perfectly for field theory (and for particle systems, of course). As in previous work, the current approach also allows us to directly get the Lagrangian constraints, a new Lagrangian formula for the counting of the number of physical degrees of freedom, the gauge transformations, and the number of first- and second-class constraints for any action principle based on a Lagrangian depending on the fields and their first derivatives without performing any Dirac's canonical analysis. An advantage of this approach over the previous work is that it also allows us to handle the reducibility of the constraints and to get the off-shell gauge transformations. The theoretical framework is illustrated in 3-dimensional generalized general relativity (Palatini and Witten's exotic actions), Chern-Simons theory, $4$-dimensional BF theory, and $4$-dimensional general relativity given by Palatini's action with cosmological constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01371

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrange's equations (70H03) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

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