Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The network
- Preface
- The constraint algebra of higher dimensional Chern-Simons theories
- Nonrelativistic Chern-Simons vortices from the constrained Hamiltonian formalism
- Classical solutions of gravitating Chern-Simons electrodynamics
- Exponentially localised instantons in a hierarchy of Higgs models
- Obstructions to ganging WZ terms: a symplectic curiosity
- Global aspects of symmetries in sigma models with torsion
- Canonical structure of the non-linear σ-model in a polynomial formulation
- A manifestly gauge-invariant approach to quantum theories of gauge fields
- On the Hamiltonian formulation of higher dimensional Chern-Simons gravity
- An Example of Loop Quantization
- Gauge fixing in constrained systems
- Light-cone formulation of gauge theories
- Hamiltonian constraints and Dirac observables
- Gauging kinematical and internal symmetry groups for extended systems
- On the harmonic interaction of three relativistic point particles
- Non existence of static multi-black-hole solutions in 2+1 dimensions
- Spherically symmetric gravity and the notion of time in general relativity
- Canonical decomposition of Belinskii-Zakharov one-soliton solutions
- Hamiltonian reduction and the R-matrix of the Calogero model
- Intrinsic approach to the Legendre transformation in super-mechanics
- Field-antifield description of anomalous theories
- Transfer matrix quantization of general relativity, and the problem of time
- The W3-particle
- Pure geometrical approach to singular Lagrangians with higher derivatives
- Dirac versus reduced phase space quantization
- Classical and quantum aspects of degenerate metric fields
- BRST-antibracket cohomology in 2d conformal gravity
- Quantisation of 2 + 1 gravity for g = 1 and g = 2
- Geometry and dynamics with time-dependent constraints
- Collective coordinates and BRST transformations or Gauge theories without gauge fields
- Geometry of fermionic constraints in superstring theories
- BRST and new superstring states
- Generalized canonical quantization of gauge theories with polarized second–class constraints
- Radiation field on superspace
- Participants
The constraint algebra of higher dimensional Chern-Simons theories
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The network
- Preface
- The constraint algebra of higher dimensional Chern-Simons theories
- Nonrelativistic Chern-Simons vortices from the constrained Hamiltonian formalism
- Classical solutions of gravitating Chern-Simons electrodynamics
- Exponentially localised instantons in a hierarchy of Higgs models
- Obstructions to ganging WZ terms: a symplectic curiosity
- Global aspects of symmetries in sigma models with torsion
- Canonical structure of the non-linear σ-model in a polynomial formulation
- A manifestly gauge-invariant approach to quantum theories of gauge fields
- On the Hamiltonian formulation of higher dimensional Chern-Simons gravity
- An Example of Loop Quantization
- Gauge fixing in constrained systems
- Light-cone formulation of gauge theories
- Hamiltonian constraints and Dirac observables
- Gauging kinematical and internal symmetry groups for extended systems
- On the harmonic interaction of three relativistic point particles
- Non existence of static multi-black-hole solutions in 2+1 dimensions
- Spherically symmetric gravity and the notion of time in general relativity
- Canonical decomposition of Belinskii-Zakharov one-soliton solutions
- Hamiltonian reduction and the R-matrix of the Calogero model
- Intrinsic approach to the Legendre transformation in super-mechanics
- Field-antifield description of anomalous theories
- Transfer matrix quantization of general relativity, and the problem of time
- The W3-particle
- Pure geometrical approach to singular Lagrangians with higher derivatives
- Dirac versus reduced phase space quantization
- Classical and quantum aspects of degenerate metric fields
- BRST-antibracket cohomology in 2d conformal gravity
- Quantisation of 2 + 1 gravity for g = 1 and g = 2
- Geometry and dynamics with time-dependent constraints
- Collective coordinates and BRST transformations or Gauge theories without gauge fields
- Geometry of fermionic constraints in superstring theories
- BRST and new superstring states
- Generalized canonical quantization of gauge theories with polarized second–class constraints
- Radiation field on superspace
- Participants
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- Geometry of Constrained Dynamical Systems , pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995