2003/01/31 by Olivera Miskovic, Olivera Mišković, Miskovic, Olivera +2
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Numerical methods for differential equations #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0301256
To appear in Proceedings of the XIII Chilean Symposium of Physics, Concepcion, Chile, November 13-15 2002. LaTeX; 5 pages; no figures
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Hamiltonian systems with linearly dependent constraints (irregular systems), are classified according to their behavior in the vicinity of the constraint surface. For these systems, the standard Dirac procedure is not directly applicable. However, Dirac's treatment can be slightly modified to obtain, in some cases, a Hamiltonian description completely equivalent to the Lagrangian one. A recipe to deal with the different cases is provided, along with a few pedagogical examples.