Peter Bergmann and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics
Abstract
Peter Bergmann was a co-inventor of the algorithm for converting singular Lagrangian models into a constrained Hamiltonian dynamical formalism. This talk focuses on the work of Bergmann and his collaborators in the period from 1949 to 1951.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2006
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.physics/0608067
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0608067
- Bibcode:
- 2006physics...8067S
- Keywords:
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- Physics - History of Physics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, contribution to proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the History of General Relativity, March 10 - 14, 2005, Tenerife, Spain