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Finite-mode Dirac first-order constraint reduction
Statement
Assume Countable Choice, the constants in Charged gauge data and SI-natural conventions, , and a finite integer . Let the real configuration space be with coordinates and let have corresponding real canonical momentum coordinates . On real smooth functions define the canonical Poisson bracket and extend it -bilinearly to complex-valued smooth functions on . Define the complex coordinate notation These definitions give with all other elementary brackets zero; the bracket is extended by bilinearity and the Leibniz rule. The first-order kinetic term gives primary constraints In the order their constraint matrix and inverse are Here, “second class” means that the constraint matrix is invertible. Thus these constraints are second class. For a real smooth finite-mode Hamiltonian , viewed as independent of the momenta, define the Wirtinger derivative The Dirac bracket satisfies and . For a real smooth finite-mode Hamiltonian the reduced equation is . These are ordinary commuting coordinates; they do not derive CAR by canonical quantization.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, the charged normalization conventions, , a finite mode number , and the canonical brackets defined in the statement.
The natural convention uses positive and a first-order covariant Dirac kinetic term. Charged gauge data and SI-natural conventions
Assume Countable Choice. The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
The natural covariant derivative is and . Charged gauge data and SI-natural conventions
Proof
Given: [A1], [A2], , and the canonical brackets in the statement.
Under the explicit Countable Choice assumption [A2], write the displayed kinetic term in the underlying real coordinates: Its real canonical momenta are therefore and . By the complex momentum definitions in the Statement, and . Moving these velocity-independent expressions to the left gives exactly and . The finite canonical calculation uses the positive fixed in [F1].
For each , bilinearity and the elementary brackets give Antisymmetry gives , which is exactly the displayed block matrix .
Multiplication of the two displayed block matrices gives ; each off-diagonal product is or , and the diagonal blocks are zero. Because , is invertible, so these primary constraints are second class by definition.
The canonical coordinate bracket is zero. In the Dirac correction, the only nonzero factors are and . Hence The same formula has no nonzero block for or , so both vanish.
For a smooth , the only nonzero reduced coordinate bracket in is with , so step 4.1 gives . Multiplying by proves the stated equation. The calculation remains finite-dimensional for every and introduces no infinite-dimensional Poisson bracket or fermionic anticommutator.