Three roads to the geometric constraint formulation of gravitational theories with boundaries
arXiv:2109.00472 · doi:10.3390/sym13081430
Abstract
The Hamiltonian description of mechanical or field models defined by singular Lagrangians plays a central role in physics. A number of methods are known for this purpose, the most popular of them being the one developed by Dirac. Here, we discuss other approaches to this problem that rely on the direct use of the equations of motion (and the tangency requirements characteristic of the Gotay, Nester, Hinds method), or are formulated in the tangent bundle of the configuration space. Owing to its interesting relation with general relativity we will use a concrete example as a test bed: an extension of the Pontryagin and Husain-Kuchař actions to four dimensional manifolds with boundary.
arXiv comment30 pages, 2 figures
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