Original scientific paper
On a property of canonical transformations for degenerate systems
Đorđe Mušicki
; Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences and Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Abstract
Canonical transformations are considered for degenerate systems in Dirac's sense, and a detailed analysis of the method of evaluation of the corresponding constraint multipliers is given. It is shown that, under very general conditions, these multipliers are obtained as linear combinations of the constraint functions. The results are subsequently generalised to classical field theory. It is concluded that canonical transformations for degenerate systems are, after the terminology suggested by Dirac, weakly equal to those for the corresponding nondegenerate system or field, obtained from the given one by omitting the constraint equations.
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328265
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Publication date:
1.9.1982.
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