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Canonical formalism of nonrelativistic theories coupled to Newton-Cartan gravity

Josef Klusoň*

  • Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic

  • *klu@physics.muni.cz

Phys. Rev. D 98, 066014 – Published 24 September, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.066014

Abstract

In this paper we perform a canonical analysis of the Schrödinger field and nonrelativistic electrodynamics coupled to Newton-Cartan gravity. We identify physical degrees of freedom and analyze the constraint structure of these theories.

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