Author : G. Sardanashvily
Release : 1995
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 457/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Generalized Hamiltonian Formalism for Field Theory by : G. Sardanashvily
Download or read book Generalized Hamiltonian Formalism for Field Theory written by G. Sardanashvily. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the framework of the geometric formulation of field theory, classical fields are represented by sections of fibred manifolds, and their dynamics is phrased in jet manifold terms. The Hamiltonian formalism in fibred manifolds is the multisymplectic generalization of the Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics when canonical momenta correspond to derivatives of fields with respect to all world coordinates, not only to time. This book is devoted to the application of this formalism to fundamental field models including gauge theory, gravitation theory, and spontaneous symmetry breaking. All these models are constraint ones. Their Euler-Lagrange equations are underdetermined and need additional conditions. In the Hamiltonian formalism, these conditions appear automatically as a part of the Hamilton equations, corresponding to different Hamiltonian forms associated with a degenerate Lagrangian density. The general procedure for describing constraint systems with quadratic and affine Lagrangian densities is presented.