HAMILTON-JACOBI FORMULATION FOR SINGULAR SYSTEMS WITH 2ND-ORDER LAGRANGIANS

Authors
PIMENTEL BM TEIXERA RG
Citation
Bm. Pimentel et Rg. Teixera, HAMILTON-JACOBI FORMULATION FOR SINGULAR SYSTEMS WITH 2ND-ORDER LAGRANGIANS, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics, 111(7), 1996, pp. 841-854
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
11241888
Volume
111
Issue
7
Year of publication
1996
Pages
841 - 854
Database
ISI
SICI code
1124-1888(1996)111:7<841:HFFSSW>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Recently, the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for first-order constrained systems has been developed. In such formalism the equations of motion are written as total differential equations in many variables. We gene ralize the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for singular systems with secon d-order Lagrangians and apply this new formulation to Podolsky electro dynamics, comparing with the results obtained through Dirac's method.