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most citedGauge transformations in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms of generally covariant theories

162 citations · 522 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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gr-qc2022

A new approach to classical Einstein-Yang-Mills Theory

Donald Salisbury

The conventional Rosenfeld-Bergmann-Dirac constrained Hamiltonian algorithm applied to Einstein-Yang-Mills theory is shown to be equivalent to a local gauge theoretic extension of…

physics.hist-ph2021

Observables and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches to general relativity. I. The Earlier History

Donald Salisbury

The main focus is on the Hamilton-Jacobi techniques in classical general relativity that were pursued by Peter Bergmann and Arthur Komar in the 1960's and 1970's. They placed speci…

physics.hist-ph2021

In Memoriam: Joshua N. Goldberg

Donald Salisbury

This is a short memoriam celebrating the life and work of the general relativist Joshua N. Goldberg, who passed away in October, 2020.

physics.hist-ph2019★ 3 cited

A contextual analysis of the early work of Andrzej Trautman and Ivor Robinson on equations of motion and gravitational radiation

Donald Salisbury, Daniel Kennefick

In a series of papers published in the course of his dissertation work in the mid 1950's, Andrzej Trautman drew upon the slow motion approximation developed by his advisor Infeld,…

physics.hist-ph2019★ 2 cited

Memories of my early career in relativity physics

Andrzej Trautman, Donald Salisbury

The text presented here and revised by the authors is based on the original oral history interview by Donald Salisbury with Andrzej Trautman recorded in Warsaw on June 24 and June…

physics.hist-ph2019

Toward a quantum theory of gravity: Syracuse 1949-1962

Donald Salisbury

Peter Bergmann and his students embarked in 1949 on a mainly canonical quantization program whose aim was to take into account the underlying four-dimensional diffeomorphism symmet…