gauge independent hamiltonian reduction of constrained systems计独立约束系统的哈密顿减.pdfVIP

GAUGE INDEPENDENT HAMILTONIAN REDUCTION OF CONSTRAINED SYSTEMS S. I. MUSLIH Received 31 October 2001 and in revised form 18 March 2002 A gauge independent method of obtaining the reduced space constrained dynamics is discussed in a purely Hamiltonian formalism. Three exam- ples are studied. 1. Introduction One of the important aspects of the Hamiltonian formulation of gauge theories is to obtain the reduced (physical) space comprising the total canonical variables. This is usually done by fixing a gauge that removes the unphysical degrees of freedom [3, 10]. Fixing a gauge