On Dirac's incomplete analysis of gauge transformations

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.04.004zbMath1222.81217arXivphysics/0409076OpenAlexW1984974704MaRDI 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 transformationsgauge theoriesDiracconstrained systemsBergmann theoryDirac conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

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