Abstract
The possibility of giving a geometrical meaning to Hamiltonian dynamics in the presence of second-class constraints by using the Dirac bracket to define a symplectic structure on the phase space is discussed.
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In memory of Mikhail Konstantinovich Polivanov
V. A. Steklov Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Higher College of Mathematical Physics of the Independent Moscow University. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 451–456, September, 1992.
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Pavlov, V.P. The Dirac bracket. Theor Math Phys 92, 1020–1023 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01017078
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01017078