Geometric Hamiltonian formalism for reparameterization-invariant theories with higher derivatives

DOI10.1007/S11232-009-0005-7zbMATH Open1241.70047arXiv0801.4293OpenAlexW3103632325MaRDI QIDQ735681FDOQ735681

Authors: P. Dunin-Barkowski, A. V. Sleptsov 

Publication date: 23 October 2009

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Reparametrization invariant Lagrangian theories with higher derivatives are considered. We investigate the geometric structures behind these theories and construct the Hamiltonian formalism in a geometric way. The Legendre transformation which corresponds to the transition from the Lagrangian formalism to the Hamiltonian formalism is non-trivial in this case. The resulting phase bundle, i.e. the image of the Legendre transformation, is a submanifold of some cotangent bundle. We show that in our construction it is always odd-dimensional. Therefore the canonical symplectic two-form from the ambient cotangent bundle generates on the phase bundle a field of the null-directions of its restriction. It is shown that the integral lines of this field project directly to the extremals of the action on the configuration manifold. Therefore this naturally arising field is what is called the Hamilton field. We also express the corresponding Hamilton equations through the generilized Nambu bracket.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4293

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zbMATH Keywords

Nambu bracketHamiltonian formalismhigher-order tangent bundlereparameterization invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

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