Dynamical dimensional reduction in multivalued Hamiltonians

Autor: Junior, Alexsandre L. Ferreira, Pinto-Neto, Nelson, Zanelli, Jorge
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Review D. 105
ISSN: 2470-0029
2470-0010
Popis: Several interesting physical systems, such as the Lovelock extension of General Relativity in higher dimensions, classical time crystals, k-essence fields, Horndeski theories, compressible fluids, and nonlinear electrodynamics, have apparent ill defined sympletic structures, due to the fact that their Hamiltonians are multi-valued functions of the momenta. In this paper, the dynamical evolution generated by such Hamiltonians is described as a degenerate dynamical system, whose sympletic form does not have a constant rank, allowing novel features and interpretations not present in previous investigations. In particular, it is shown how the multi-valuedness is associated with a dynamical mechanism of dimensional reduction, as some degrees of freedom turn into gauge symmetries when the system degenerates.
8 pages, 3 figures. Replaced to match published version
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