Classical mechanics with respect to an observer’s past light cone

DOI10.1063/1.527809zbMath0618.70008OpenAlexW2076755213MaRDI QIDQ3754930

G. H. Derrick

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527809

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian approachcanonical transformationprobability distributiondynamical variablesDirac matricesspinor formpast light-cone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

Related Items (2)

Complete orthonormal sets on the past light cone. I. Functions belonging to mass zero and helicity s ⋮ Reductions of topologically massive gravity I: Hamiltonian analysis of second order degenerate Lagrangians

Cites Work

• Eight-dimensional spinor representation of the Poincaré group
• Forms of Relativistic Dynamics

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