A Hamiltonian formulation of causal variational principles

DOI10.1007/s00526-017-1153-5zbMath1375.49060arXiv1612.07192OpenAlexW2581284609WikidataQ125351324 ScholiaQ125351324MaRDI QIDQ2403769

Johannes Kleiner, Felix Finster

Publication date: 12 September 2017

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07192

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationscausal fermion systemscausal variational principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Optimality conditions for problems in abstract spaces (49K27) Optimality conditions for problems involving relations other than differential equations (49K21) Set functions and measures on spaces with additional structure (28C99)

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