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169 Kurt Sundermeyer

Constrained Dynamics with Applications to Yang-Mills Theory, General Relativity, Classical Spin, Dual String Model

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1982

Author Kurt S u n d e r m e y e r Freie Universit~t Berlin Institut f l i t T h e o r i e d e r E l e m e n t a r t e i l c h e n A r n i m a l l e e 14, D-1000 Berlin 3 3

I S B N 3 - 5 4 0 4 1 9 4 7 - 7 S p r i n g e r - V e r l a g Berlin H e i d e l b e r g N e w Y o r k I S B N 0 - 3 8 7 4 1 9 4 7 - 7 S p r i n g e r - V e r l a g N e w Y o r k H e i d e l b e r g Berlin This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to "Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort", Munich. © by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1982 Printed in Germany Printing and binding: Beltz Offsetdruck, Hemsbach/Bergstr. 2153/3140-543210

TABLE OF CONTENTS

O.

INTRODUCTION

I.

CLASSICAL

I

REGULAR SYSTEMS

9

i. Action, L a g r a n g i a n and H a m i l t o n i a n many degrees of freedom 2. Classical

9

field theory

3. Transformations, 4. Geometrical II.

for systems with finitely 13

symmetries

and invariances

16

formulation of classical dynamics

32

CLASSICAL S I N G U L A R SYSTEMS

38

i. L a g r a n g i a n

38

description

2. The D i r a c - B e r g m a n n

algorithm

for systems with constraints

45

3. A simple example

60

4. Field theory with constraints

65

5. "Constrained

Dynamics"

and presymplectic

geometry

72

III. THE REDUCED PHASE-SPACE

79

i. Second class constraints 2. First class constraints 3. Observables

and gauge transformations

89 98

meaning of the reduction process

QUANTIZATION

OF C O N S T R A I N E D

i. Canonical

quantization

2. Functional

80

and gauge reduction

4. The geometrical IV.

and the Dirac bracket

integrals

106

SYSTEMS

109 110

for systems with constraints

-

Faddeev's method

114

3. Fradkin's method for relativistic V.

THE E L E C T R O M A G N E T I C

constraints

118

FIELD

123

i. The singular nature of the Maxwell Lagrangian,

and the field

equations

123

2. The Dirac-Bergmann 3. Gauge freedom,

VI.

algorithm for the Maxwell

theory

the reduced phase-space, and gauge fixing

126 134

4. The electromagnetic

field

coupled

to a charged boson field 146

5. The electromagnetic

field

coupled

to a spin-i/2

YANG-MILLS

field

THEORY

i. Lagrangian

161

formalism and local gauge invariance

2. The constraints 3. F a d d e e v - P o p o v

153

of Yang-Mills

procedure

theory and the Coulomb gauge

and Gribov ambiguity

163 165 170

IV 4. Ghost- and a m b i g u i t y - f r e e 5. Yang-Mills

theory with massive

VIII. THE R E L A T I V I S T I C i. L a g r a n g i a n

i. The classical

EINSTEIN'S

fields

formulation

- or - S u p e r g r a v i t y