A first class constraint generates not a gauge transformation, but a bad physical change: The case of electromagnetism

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2014.08.014zbMath1360.70030arXiv1310.2756OpenAlexW2056939668MaRDI QIDQ527639

J. Brian Pitts

Publication date: 12 May 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2756

zbMATH Keywords

observablescanonical quantizationfirst-class constraintsHamiltonian methodsDirac-Bergmann constrained dynamicsGauge transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

Related Items

A brief introduction to gauge-invariant dynamical systems, Change in Hamiltonian general relativity from the lack of a time-like Killing vector field, Reassessing the problem of time of quantum gravity, Does a second-class primary constraint generate a gauge transformation? Electromagnetisms and gravities, massless and massive, On the conceptual issues surrounding the notion of relational Bohmian dynamics, Equivalent theories and changing Hamiltonian observables in general relativity, What are observables in Hamiltonian Einstein-Maxwell theory?, Change in Hamiltonian general relativity with spinors

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Elimination of the auxiliary fields in the antifield formalism
• Change in Hamiltonian general relativity from the lack of a time-like Killing vector field
• On Dirac's incomplete analysis of gauge transformations
• The Hamiltonian structure of Yang-Mills theories and instantons. II
• The Hamiltonian structure of Yang-Mills theories and instantons. I
• Hamiltonian embedding of the massive Yang-Mills theory and the generalized Stückelberg formalism
• A proof of the Dirac conjecture for a class of finite-dimensional Hamilton-Dirac systems.
• Constrained dynamics. With applications to Yang-Mills theory, general relativity, classical spin, dual string model
• Fine structure of constraints in Hamiltonian formulation
• Gauge identities and the Dirac conjecture
• Quantisation of second class systems in the Batalin-Tyutin formalism
• Partial and complete observables for Hamiltonian constrained systems
• Gauge transformation in Einstein–Yang–Mills theories
• Poincare-Cartan Invariant Form and Dynamical Systems with Constraints
• The theory of gravitation in Hamiltonian form
• Reduction of Primary Constraints in Generally Covariant Field Theories
• Renormalizability of Gauge Theories
• The energy problem in Einstein's theory of gravitation (Dedicated to the memory of V. A. Fock)
• Presymplectic manifolds and the Dirac–Bergmann theory of constraints
• Relativity without relativity
• The Hamiltonian Form of Field Dynamics
• Constraints in Covariant Field Theories
• Master equation for Lagrangian gauge symmetries
• Hamiltonian approach to Lagrangian gauge symmetries.