Search results for "Covariant Hamiltonian field theory"
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Chaotic Scattering in the Gaussian Potential
1995
It is well known that general classical Hamiltonian dynamical systems have as a rule chaotic behaviour. By such a term one usually understands a sensitive dependence on initial conditions which manifests itself in the topology of phase space. For the most studied case of bounded motions this behaviour is detected, for example, by analysing the Poincare surfaces of section and by calculating Lyapunov characteristic exponents. The question then naturally arises of what are the effects of this complexity on the unbounded motions, i.e., on scattering phenomena. The signature of chaotic dynamics in these scattering regions of phase space has been the object of several papers appeared mainly in t…
Non-Adiabatic Aspects of Time-Dependent Hamiltonian Systems
1994
Extreme adiabatic behavior furnishes great simplification in the treatment of linear time-dependent Hamiltonian systems. But the actual time variation of the parameters is only finitely, rather than infinitely, slow. Then one is forced to consider corrections to the adiabatic limit.
Phase space coordinates and the Hamiltonian constraint of Regge calculus.
1994
We suggest that the phase space of Regge calculus is spanned by the areas and the deficit angles corresponding to the two-simplexes on the spacelike hypersurface of simplicial spacetime. Our proposal is based on a slight modification of the Ashtekar formulation of canonical gravity. In terms of these phase space coordinates we write an equation which we suggest to be a simplicial version of the Hamiltonian constraint of canonical gravity.