Covariant phase space, constraints, gauge and the Peierls formula

DOI10.1142/S0217751X14300099MaRDI QIDQ5407906zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Igor Khavkine

Publication date 8 April 2014

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1282

zbMATH Keywords

classical field theorycovariant phase spacePeierls bracketPoisson structuresymplectic structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-02) 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) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) More general nonquantum field theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S20)

Abstract: It is well known that both the symplectic structure and the Poisson brackets of classical field theory can be constructed directly from the Lagrangian in a covariant way, without passing through the non-covariant canonical Hamiltonian formalism. This is true even in the presence of constraints and gauge symmetries. These constructions go under the names of the covariant phase space formalism and the Peierls bracket. We review both of them, paying more careful attention, than usual, to the precise mathematical hypotheses that they require, illustrating them in examples. Also an extensive historical overview of the development of these constructions is provided. The novel aspect of our presentation is a significant expansion and generalization of an elegant and quite recent argument by Forger & Romero showing the equivalence between the resulting symplectic and Poisson structures without passing through the canonical Hamiltonian formalism as an intermediary. We generalize it to cover theories with constraints and gauge symmetries and formulate precise sufficient conditions under which the argument holds. These conditions include a local condition on the equations of motion that we call hyperbolizability, and some global conditions of cohomological nature. The details of our presentation may shed some light on subtle questions related to the Poisson structure of gauge theories and their quantization.

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