Total Divergences in Hamiltonian Formalism of Field Theory

1995/08/04 by Vladimir O. Soloviev, Soloviev, Vladimir O.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9508023

5 pages, LaTeX, no figures

arxiv created 1995/08/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

In this report it is proposed to generalize the definition of Poisson brackets in order to treat spatial integrals of divergences as Hamiltonians which generate a kind of Hamiltonian equations on the boundary. Nonlinear Schrodinger equation is used as an illustrative example.

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