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Constraints in relativistic Hamiltonian mechanics

Joseph Samuel*

  • Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012 India

  • *Present address: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560080, India.

Phys. Rev. D 26, 3475 – Published 15 December, 1982

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.26.3475

Abstract

We propose a new scheme for the use of constraints in setting up classical, Hamiltonian, relativistic, interacting particle theories. We show that it possesses both Poincaré invariance and invariance of world lines. We discuss the transition to the physical phase space and the nonrelativistic limit.

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