Divergences in formal variational calculus and boundary terms in Hamiltonian formalism

1995/11/17 by Vladimir O. Soloviev, Soloviev, Vladimir O.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9511130

15 pages, TeX macro included, no figures, talk given at "Symposium on Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics", Warsaw, May 1995

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Abstract

It is shown how to extend the formal variational calculus in order to incorporate integrals of divergences into it. Such a generalization permits to study nontrivial boundary problems in field theory on the base of canonical formalism.

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