Augmented algorithm for the Hamiltonian

Robert Cawley
Phys. Rev. D 21, 2988 – Published 15 May 1980
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Abstract

An example is given, additional to Frenkel's example in the preceding paper, in which Dirac's test gives too much gauge arbitrariness, signaling a breakdown of the constraint algorithm. A common pathology of the two examples is that HT is not differentiable along the constraint hypersurface, and this causes the canonical equations to be inherently singular. An augmented algorithm for the Hamiltonian is proposed which coincides with Dirac's in the differentiable case, which works correctly in a class of examples having nondifferentiable HT, and in which the usual algorithm fails. The proposed algorithm appears to be generally applicable.

  • Received 10 October 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.21.2988

©1980 American Physical Society

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Robert Cawley

  • Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

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Vol. 21, Iss. 10 — 15 May 1980

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