Constrained Dynamical Systems: Separation of Constraints into First and Second Classes

Abstract

In the Dirac approach to the generalized Hamiltonian formalism, dynamical systems with first- and second-class constraints are investigated. The classification and separation of constraints into the first- and second-class ones are presented with the help of passing to an equivalent canonical set of constraints. The general structure of second-class constraints is clarified.

12 pages, LaTex; Preprint of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research E2-96-227, Dubna, 1996; to be published in Physical Review D

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