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Are Poisson brackets of second-class constraints independent of the canonical coordinates?
Say we have a constraint system with second-class constraints $\chi_N(q,p)=0$. To define Dirac brackets we need the Poisson brackets of these constraints: $C_{NM}=\{\chi_N(q,p),\chi_M(q,p)\}_P$ . Is ...
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What does symplecticity imply?
Symplectic systems are a common object of studies in classical physics and nonlinearity sciences.
At first I assumed it was just another way of saying Hamiltonian, but I also heard it in the context ...
