On Dirac's incomplete analysis of gauge transformations

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.04.004zbMath1222.81217arXivphysics/0409076MaRDI QIDQ640223

Josep M. Pons

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0409076

zbMATH Keywords

gauge transformations; gauge theories; Dirac; constrained systems; Bergmann theory; Dirac conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

70H45: Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints

70S05: Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems

70S10: Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems

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