HAMILTONIAN REDUCTION OF FIRST-ORDER ACTIONS
- 20 September 1990
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Vol. 5 (18) , 3625-3640
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x90001574
Abstract
The Hamiltonian structure associated to an arbitrary system described by a first-order action is considered in detail. The equivalence of two possible approaches is established in full generality. The first has been advocated recently by Faddeev and Jackiw. The second is based on the more standard methods of constrained dynamics. Some consequences of the general analysis are also discussed.Keywords
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