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The Hamilton-Jacobi formalism à la Carathéodory. Part 2: singular systems

In the second part of the paper published on Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física 29, 393 (2007) we will show how the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism works for singular systems. We will bring the generalization of the Carathéodory's method for Lagrangians whose Hessian matrix is singular. We will also build a procedure of constraint analysis of such systems based on the formalism.

Hamilton-Jacobi equation; singular systems; constraints


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