Path‐integral quantization of constrained Hamiltonian dynamical system: A pedagogical example

1986 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 1024-1029
Author(s):  
Manan Sengupta
Author(s):  
Paul Ritchie ◽  
Özkan Karabacak ◽  
Jan Sieber

A classical scenario for tipping is that a dynamical system experiences a slow parameter drift across a fold tipping point, caused by a run-away positive feedback loop. We study what happens if one turns around after one has crossed the threshold. We derive a simple criterion that relates how far the parameter exceeds the tipping threshold maximally and how long the parameter stays above the threshold to avoid tipping in an inverse-square law to observable properties of the dynamical system near the fold. For the case when the dynamical system is subject to stochastic forcing we give an approximation to the probability of tipping if a parameter changing in time reverses near the tipping point. The derived approximations are valid if the parameter change in time is sufficiently slow. We demonstrate for a higher-dimensional system, a model for the Indian summer monsoon, how numerically observed escape from the equilibrium converge to our asymptotic expressions. The inverse-square law between peak of the parameter forcing and the time the parameter spends above a given threshold is also visible in the level curves of equal probability when the system is subject to random disturbances.


2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (27) ◽  
pp. 1250157 ◽  
Author(s):  
USHA KULSHRESHTHA

Vector Schwinger model with a mass term for the photon, describing 2D electrodynamics with massless fermions, studied by us recently [U. Kulshreshtha, Mod. Phys. Lett. A22, 2993 (2007); U. Kulshreshtha and D. S. Kulshreshtha, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A22, 6183 (2007); U. Kulshreshtha, PoS LC2008, 008 (2008)], represents a new class of models. This theory becomes gauge-invariant when studied on the light-front. This is in contrast to the instant-form theory which is gauge-non-invariant. In this work, we study the light-front Hamiltonian and path integral quantization of this theory under appropriate light-cone gauge-fixing. The discretized light-cone quantization of the theory where we wish to make contact with the experimentally observational aspects of the theory would be presented in a separate paper.


1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (32) ◽  
pp. 2995-3003 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. HULL ◽  
L. PALACIOS

The coupling of scalars fields to chiral W3 gravity is reviewed. In general the quantum current algebra generated by the spin-two and three currents does not close when the "natural" regularization (corresponding to the normal ordering with respect to the modes of ∂ϕi) is used, and the non-closure reflects matter-dependent anomalies in the path integral quantization. We consider the most general modification of the current, involving higher derivative "background charge" terms, and find the conditions for them to form a closed algebra in the "natural" regularization. These conditions can be satisfied only for the two-boson model. In that case, it is possible to cancel all the matter-dependent anomalies by adding finite local counter terms to the action and modifying the transformation rules of the fields.


2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
H. A. ELEGLA ◽  
N. I. FARAHAT

Motivated by the Hamilton–Jacobi approach of constrained systems, we analyze the classical structure of a four-dimensional superstring. The equations of motion for a singular system are obtained as total differential equations in many variables. The path integral quantization based on Hamilton–Jacobi approach is applied to quantize the system, and the integration is taken over the canonical phase space coordinates.


Author(s):  
Amira Sarayati Ahmad Dahalan ◽  
Abdul Rashid Husaint ◽  
Mohd Badril NorShah ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal Zakaria ◽  
Muhammad Nizam Kamarudin

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (36) ◽  
pp. 2383-2391 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMI I. MUSLIH

The path integral formulation of singular systems with second-order Lagrangians is constructed by using the canonical method. The path integral quantization of Podolsky electrodynamics is studied.


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