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The distinction between primary and secondary constraints is not a very fundamental one. It depends very much on the original Lagrangian which we start off with. Once we have gone over to the Hamiltonian formalism, we can really forget about the distinction between primary and secondary constraints.
73:. A few authors use more refined terminology, where the non-primary constraints are divided into secondary, tertiary, quaternary, etc. constraints. The secondary constraints arise directly from the condition that the primary constraints are preserved by 68:
is one that is not primary—in other words it holds when the equations of motion are satisfied, but need not hold if they are not satisfied The secondary constraints arise from the condition that the primary constraints should be preserved in
77:, the tertiary constraints arise from the condition that the secondary ones are also preserved by time, and so on. Primary and secondary constraints were introduced by Anderson and 88:. These divisions are independent: both first- and second-class constraints can be either primary or secondary, so this gives altogether four different classes of constraints. 17: 149: 247: 144:. Belfer Graduate School of Science Monographs Series. Vol. 2. New York: Belfer Graduate School of Science. 492: 175: 191: 85: 28: 185: 45: 201: 471: 418: 382: 348: 312: 278: 159: 127: 107: 98:
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The terminology of primary and secondary constraints is confusingly similar to that of
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Peter Bergmann and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics
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Index

Secondary constraint
First-class constraint
Hamiltonian mechanics
coordinates
momenta
equations of motion
time
time
Bergmann
first- and second-class constraints
Bibcode
1951PhRv...83.1018A
doi
10.1103/PhysRev.83.1018
MR
0044382
Dirac, Paul A. M.
Lectures on quantum mechanics
ISBN
9780486417134
MR
2220894
Dirac 1964
p. 43
Dirac 1964
p. 8
Dirac 1964
Anderson & Bergmann 1951
Dirac, Paul A. M.
"Generalized Hamiltonian dynamics"

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