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Spaces of solutions of relativistic field theories with constraints

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, California, USA

    Jerrold E. Marsden

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  2. Institut für Theoretische Kernphysik, Universität Bonn, Nußallee 14-16, 0-5300, Bonn, Germany

    Herbert Rainer Petry

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Marsden, J.E. (1982). Spaces of solutions of relativistic field theories with constraints. In: Doebner, HD., Andersson, S.I., Petry, H.R. (eds) Differential Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0092425

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