Form of relativistic dynamics with world lines
- 15 May 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 23 (10) , 2210-2217
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.23.2210
Abstract
In any Hamiltonian relativistic theory there are ten generators of the Poincaré group which are realized canonically. The dynamical evolution is described by a Hamiltonian which is one of the ten generators in Dirac's generator formalism. The requirement that the canonical transformations reproduce the geometrical transformation of world points generates the world-line conditions. The Dirac identification of the Hamiltonian and the world-line conditions together lead to the no-interaction theorem. Interacting relativistic theories with world-line conditions should go beyond the Dirac theory and have eleven generators. In this paper we present a constraint dynamics formalism which describes an eleven-generator theory of interacting particles using variables with suitable constraints. The pair of four-vectors is associated with the uniform motion of a center which coincides with the center of energy for free particles. In such theories dynamics and kinematics cannot be separated out in a simple fashion.
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