Putting an edge to the Poisson bracket

DOI10.1063/1.1286144MaRDI QIDQ2738263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaus Bering

Publication date 30 August 2001

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9806249

zbMATH Keywords

abstract world volume manifoldboundary termChern-Simons theorygeneral relativityHamiltonian canonical field theoryJacobi identityPoisson bracketspatial edgetime ordering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

Abstract: We consider a general formalism for treating a Hamiltonian (canonical) field theory with a spatial boundary. In this formalism essentially all functionals are differentiable from the very beginning and hence no improvement terms are needed. We introduce a new Poisson bracket which differs from the usual ``bulk Poisson bracket with a boundary term and show that the Jacobi identity is satisfied. The result is geometrized on an abstract world volume manifold. The method is suitable for studying systems with a spatial edge like the ones often considered in Chern-Simons theory and General Relativity. Finally, we discuss how the boundary terms may be related to the time ordering when quantizing.

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