Author: L. Vitagliano
The covariant phase space of a lagrangian field theory is the solution space of
the associated Euler-Lagrange equations. It is, in principle, a nice
environment for covariant quantization of a lagrangian field theory. Indeed, it
is manifestly covariant and possesses a canonical (functional)
"presymplectic structure"
ω (as first noticed by Zuckerman in 1986) whose degeneracy
(functional) distribution is naturally interpreted as Lie algebra of gauge
transformations. We propose a fully rigorous approach to the covariant phase
space in the framework of secondary calculus. In particular we describe the
degeneracy distribution of ω . As a byproduct we re derive
the existence of a Lie bracket among gauge invariant functions on the covariant
phase space.
See also arXiv: 0809.4164.
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