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Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 852329, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/852329
Research Article
Covariant Canonical Method for Yang-Mills Theory Expressed as a Constrained BF-Like Theory
Instituto de Física Luis Rivera Terrazas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (IFUAP),
Apartado Postal J-48, 72570 Puebla, PUE, Mexico
Received 2 March 2012; Accepted 18 May 2012
Academic Editor: Shao-Ming Fei
Copyright © 2012 Alberto Escalante and Irving García. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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