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Peter Bergmann and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics

D. C. Salisbury

physics.hist-pharXiv:physics/0608067

Abstract

Peter Bergmann was a co-inventor of the algorithm for converting singular Lagrangian models into a constrained Hamiltonian dynamical formalism. This talk focuses on the work of Bergmann and his collaborators in the period from 1949 to 1951.

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