On Higher Derivatives as Constraints in Field Theory: a Geometric Perspective

Abstract

We formalize geometrically the idea that the (de Donder) Hamiltonian formulation of a higher derivative Lagrangian field theory can be constructed understanding the latter as a first derivative theory subjected to constraints.

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References in corpus (2)

• The Lagrangian-Hamiltonian Formalism for Higher Order Field Theories
• Partial Differential Hamiltonian Systems

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• Covariant canonical formulations of classical field theories
• Symplectic structures related with higher order variational problems