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Extended Lagrange and Hamilton Formalism for Point Mechanics and Covariant Hamilton Field Theory

Extended Lagrange and Hamilton Formalism for Point Mechanics and Covariant Hamilton Field Theory

Hardcover

Physics

ISBN10: 981457841X
ISBN13: 9789814578417
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: Sep 20 2024
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.78
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

This book presents the extended Lagrange and Hamilton formalisms of point mechanics and field theory in the usual tensor language of standard textbooks on classical dynamics. The notion extended signifies that the physical time of point dynamics as well as the space-time in field theories are treated as dynamical variables. It thus elaborates on some important questions including: How do we convert the canonical formalisms of Lagrange and Hamilton that are built upon Newton's concept of an absolute time into the appropriate form of the post-Einstein era? How do we devise a Hamiltonian field theory with space-time as a dynamical variable in order to also cover General Relativity?

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