A tutorial on Dirac quantisation by analysing the problem of a ball on an inclined plane as a Hamiltonian system with constraints

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28878v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 07:42:09 GMT
• Title: A tutorial on Dirac quantisation by analysing the problem of a ball on an inclined plane as a Hamiltonian system with constraints
• Abstract summary: We present a detailed review/analysis of the Dirac quantisation of Hamiltonian systems with constraints.<n>We demonstrate that the restriction of the Hamiltonian operator of this system with constraints to the physical Hilbert subspace reproduces the same Schrdinger equation.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we present a detailed review/analysis of the Dirac quantisation of Hamiltonian systems with constraints. To this end, we use, as a guide, the physical example provided by the dynamics of a solid ball rolling, without slipping, down an inclined plane under the action of gravity. After all, however simple this physical system may be, it provides a rich framework for this analysis since, in addition to allowing us to discuss scenarios involving holonomic and non-holonomic constraints, it is also a gauge system. Indeed, due to this latter fact, we have carefully detailed how the transition, from classical to quantum mechanics, must be guided by the Dirac-Bergmann algorithm and by the consequent replacement of Dirac brackets with commutators. As a central result, we demonstrate that the restriction of the Hamiltonian operator of this system with constraints to the physical Hilbert subspace (which is identified with the quantisation of these constraints) reproduces the same Schrödinger equation that can be originally obtained in intrinsic terms, a fact that only reinforces the consistency of the Dirac quantisation method.

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