Gauge Invariance and Canonical Variables

1999/04/02 by И. Б. Хриплович, I. B. Khriplovich, A. I. Milstein +2
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) #physics.ed-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/9904003

3 pages, latex, no figures, Siberian Journal of Physics, in press

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Abstract

We discuss some paradoxes arising due to the gauge-dependence of canonical variables in mechanics.

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