Canonical formulation of Pais-Ulhenbeck action and resolving the issue of branched Hamiltonian

Kaushik Sarkar, Nayem Sk, Ranajit Mandal +1

Shortcomings of Dirac's constrained analysis in the context of fourth order Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator action and the appearance of badly affected phase-space Hamiltonian for a gene…