Reconsideration of De Donder-Weyl theory by covariant analytic mechanics

Abstract: We show that the covariant analytic mechanics (CAM) is closely related to the De Donder-Weyl (DW) theory. To treat space and time on an equal footing, the DW theory introduces $D$ conjugate fields ($D$ is the dimension of space-time) for each field and the CAM regards the differential forms as the basic variables. The generalization of the canonical equations is called the DW equations. Although one of the DW equations is not correct for the gauge field and the gravitational field, we show the way to improve it. By rewriting the canonical equations of the CAM, which are manifestly general coordinate covariant and gauge covariant, using the components of the tensors, we show that these are equivalent to the improved DW equations. Additionally, we investigate the Dirac field. We present a modified Hamilton formalism which regards only the Dirac fields as the basic variables and show that it provides the Dirac equations correctly.