The nonrelativistic Schrödinger Hamiltonian uses and therefore has no massless limit; massless particles require a relativistic wave equation or quantum field theory.
For a relativistic particle, the Hamiltonian gauge parameter changes the worldline einbein by its time derivative. Fixing the einbein to a constant therefore gives a Faddeev-Popov determinant of , represented by anticommuting FP ghosts. Gauge zero modes and the proper-time modulus are treated separately. The displayed phase convention gives the odd canonical bracket .
Functions for which for all pairs. Their Hamiltonian vector fields commute, and each is constant along the flows of the others. When they are integrals of motion of a Hamiltonian, they are first integrals in involution.
The Maxwell Lagrangian density contains no time derivative of , so its canonical momentum vanishes. The condition is a first-class constraint. Its time preservation yields the Gauss law constraint in gauge theory; acts as the corresponding multiplier in the Hamiltonian.
Expanding the Hamiltonian about a static classical solution removes the linear term by its Euler-Lagrange field equation. For a canonical real scalar field with potential , the quadratic fluctuation operator is . Positive-frequency normal modes become quantum harmonic oscillators under canonical quantization, yielding the Gaussian contribution to a one-loop soliton mass correction. A negative eigenvalue signals an instability, while a physical zero mode in field theory must be replaced by a collective coordinate.
Real-space renormalization group Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
A real-space renormalization group replaces groups of microscopic degrees of freedom by retained coarse variables, summing over the eliminated variables to define a coarse Hamiltonian. The effective Boltzmann weights must preserve the partition function up to a tracked normalization. Spin decimation retains selected spins rather than forming an average block variable. Coarse-graining generally generates additional interactions, so closure of a chosen finite coupling family requires justification.
Regular Lagrangian 2026-10-06
A Lagrangian is regular when its velocity Hessian matrix is invertible. The inverse function theorem then makes the fiber derivative locally invertible, allowing a local Legendre transform in mechanics to a Hamiltonian. If that fiber derivative is globally invertible, the Lagrangian is called a hyperregular Lagrangian. Regularity alone does not assert global invertibility, and singular Lagrangians may give constrained rather than ordinary unconstrained Hamilton's equations.
In the weak, non-crossing, leading-eccentricity planar model, exterior orders one to three have positive resonant disturbing function coefficients . Interior eccentricity-type coefficients of these orders have sign . A local resonant Hamiltonian , with , gives . Linear stability analysis therefore selects for and for . Exterior symmetric centres are ; interior centres are for orders one, two and three. These are conditional leading-harmonic predictions, not universal centres at arbitrary orbital eccentricity; asymmetric resonant-argument libration changes the picture.
On a compact spatial Cauchy hypersurface without boundary, the gravitational Hamiltonian consists entirely of constraints and vanishes on solutions. There is no asymptotic time-translation boundary charge to add. This is the canonical statement that a closed universe has zero total energy; it does not assert that local matter energy density or local curvature vanishes.
A regular phase-mixed distribution in an axisymmetric Stäckel potential is even separately in and , because these integrals depend on those components only through squares. Odd integration then gives all three mixed second moments zero, even if the dependence produces azimuthal streaming. Bare stationarity alone is insufficient in degenerate resonant potentials with additional integrals. For example the isotropic harmonic Hamiltonian has the extra conserved ; a positive Gaussian with is a steady tracer and has nonzero . Its harmonic gravitational potential is a Stäckel potential in these spheroidal coordinates. This tracer need not itself source that harmonic gravitational potential. The alignment claim thus needs the phase-mixed three-integral hypothesis, not merely the weak form of Jeans theorem.