Objective This project will establish a network which aims to co-ordinate the research efforts of eighteen laboratories in the study of dynamical systems subjected to constraints. Thirteen laboratories are already collaborating and this project will join their efforts to five further laboratories in the NIS. The research programme of the network is directed towards: a general study of constrained systems; applications to model systems, in particular the sigma-model, and other examples in which the motion lies on a group manifold; problems related to Yang-Mills theories, including definition of physical states and decoupling of unphysical degrees of freedom; the quantum formulation of general relativity as a dynamical system with constraints; generalisations, alternative treatments and modifications of general relativity; study of BRST symmetry of constrained systems, and of BRST cohomology; application of non-commutative geometry to constrained systems, especially gauge theories and extensions of GR; anomalies and constrained systems; W-algebra and W-gravity; and quantization procedures. In bringing together the existing network in western Europe together with those from the NIS a powerful grouping will be created with immense potential for productive research in these areas through exchange of information and, where appropriate, through visits and short-term exchanges. It is foreseen that at least one workshop will be held to co-ordinate the project. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) 16 - Theoretical Physics Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF LONDON EU contribution No data Address Mile End Road E1 4NS London United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics Russia EU contribution No data Address 117259 Moscow See on map Total cost No data National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ukraine EU contribution No data Address 252143 Kiev See on map Total cost No data Russian Academy of Sciences Russia EU contribution No data Address 117924 Moscow See on map Total cost No data Tomsk State University Russia EU contribution No data Address 634050 Tomsk See on map Total cost No data Yerevan Physics Institute Armenia EU contribution No data Address 375036 Yerevan See on map Total cost No data