A Note on nonlocality and Ostrogradski's construction

Jul, 2000
11 pages
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Abstract:
We consider the Hamiltonian treatment of non-local theories and Ostrogradski's formalism. This has recently also been discussed by Woodard (hep-th/0006207) and by Gomis, Kamimura and Llosa (hep-th/0006235). In our approach we recast the second class constraints into first class constraints and invoke the boundary Poisson bracket.
  • axiomatic field theory
  • Lagrangian formalism
  • field equations
  • Hamiltonian formalism
  • invariance: gauge
  • constraint