Covariant Hamilton equations for field theory

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/38/302MaRDI QIDQ4947792zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Giachetta, L. Mangiarotti, G. Sardanashvily

Publication date 25 April 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9904062

zbMATH Keywords

almost regular LagrangianCartan equationsconstrained Hamilton equationscovariant Hamilton equationsdegenerate quadratic Lagrangiandegenerate semiregular LagrangianEuler-Lagrange equationsfinite-dimensional phase spacefirst-order Lagrangian field theoryHamilton-DeDonder equationsmultisymplectic Hamilton formalismpolysymplectic Hamiltonian formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

Abstract: We study the relationship between the equations of first order Lagrangian field theory on fiber bundles and the covariant Hamilton equations on the finite-dimensional polysymplectic phase space of covariant Hamiltonian field theory. The main peculiarity of these Hamilton equations lies in the fact that, for degenerate systems, they contain additional gauge fixing conditions. We develop the BRST extension of the covariant Hamiltonian formalism, characterized by a Lie superalgebra of BRST and anti-BRST symmetries.

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