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HindawiPublishingCorporation JournalofAppliedMathematics Volume2011,ArticleID375838,11pages doi:10.1155/2011/375838 ResearchArticle CanonicalQuantization ofHigher-Order Lagrangians KhaledI.Nawa?eh Department ofPhysics,Mu’tahUniversity,Karak61710,Jordan Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoKhaledI.Nawa?eh, knawa?eh@.jo Received4July2011;Accepted 22August2011 Academic Editor:NicolaGuglielmi Copyright q2011KhaledI.Nawa?eh.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,distribution, andreproduction in anymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. After reducing asystem ofhigher-order regular Lagrangian into ?rst-order singular Lagrangian usingconstrained auxiliary description, theHamilton-Jacobi function isconstructed. Besides, the quantization ofthesystemisinvestigated usingthecanonical pathintegralapproximation. 1.Introduction Thee?ortstoquantizesystemswithconstraintsstartedwiththeworkofDirac1,2 ,who ?rst set up a formalism for treating singular systems and the constraints involved for the purposeofquantizinghis?eld,withspecialemphasisonthegravitational?eld.InDirac’s canonicalquantizationmethod,thePoissonbracketsofclassicalmechanicsarereplacedwith quantumcommutators. Anewformalismforinvestigating?rst-ordersingularsystems-,thecanonical-,was developedbyRabeiandGuler3.TheseauthorsobtainedasetofHamilton-Jacobipartial di?erential equations HJPDEs for singular systems using Caratheodory’s equivalent- Lagrangian method 4. In this formalism, the equations of motion are obtained as total di?erentialequationsandthesetofHJPDEswasdetermined.Recently,theformalismhas beenextendedtosecond-andhigher-orderLagrangians5,6.Dependingonthismethod, thepath-integralquantizationof?rst-andhigher-orderconstrainedLagrangiansystemshas beenapplied7–10. Moreover, the quantization of constrained systems has been studied for ?rst-order singularLagrangiansusingtheWKBapproximation11.TheHJPDEsforthesesystemshave bee