Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1856267 | Annals of Physics | 2008 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
In this work, we analyze systems described by Lagrangians with higher order derivatives in the context of the Hamilton–Jacobi formalism for first order actions. Two different approaches are studied here: the first one is analogous to the description of theories with higher derivatives in the hamiltonian formalism according to [D.M. Gitman, S.L. Lyakhovich, I.V. Tyutin, Soviet Phys. J. 26 (1983) 730; D.M. Gitman, I.V. Tyutin, Quantization of Fields with Constraints, Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, 1990] the second treats the case where degenerate coordinate are present, in an analogy to reference [D.M. Gitman, I.V. Tyutin, Nucl. Phys. B 630 (2002) 509]. Several examples are analyzed where a comparison between both approaches is made.
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Authors
M.C. Bertin, B.M. Pimentel, P.J. Pompeia,