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Phys. Rev. D 56, 1135–1141 (1997)

Dynamical systems with first- and second-class constraints. I. Separation of constraints into first and second classes

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N. P. Chitaia and S. A. Gogilidze
Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, University Street 9, 380086 Georgia

Yu. S. Surovtsev
Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russia

Received 23 September 1996; published in the issue dated 15 July 1997

In the Dirac approach to the generalized Hamiltonian formalism, dynamical systems with first- and second-class constraints are investigated. The classification and separation of constraints into the first- and second-class ones are presented with the help of passing to an equivalent canonical set of constraints. The general structure of second-class constraints is clarified.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1135
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1135
PACS:
11.15.Kc, 02.20.Tw, 03.65.Ge

See Also

See Also: N. P. Chitaia, S. A. Gogilidze, and Yu. S. Surovtsev, Dynamical systems with first- and second-class constraints. II. Local-symmetry transformations, Phys. Rev. D 56, 1142 (1997).