Conformal foliations and constraint quantization

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(95)00018-6MaRDI QIDQ1912932zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors João Nuno Tavares

Publication date 21 August 1996

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9401015, http://cds.cern.ch/record/257034

zbMATH Keywords

canonical quantizationconformal foliationsconstraint quantizationparametrized relativistic gauge systemquantum operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We show that the Classical Constraint Algebra of a Parametrized Relativistic Gauge System induces a natural structure of Conformal Foliation on a Transversal Gauge. Using the theory of Conformal Foliations, we provide a natural Factor Ordering for the Quantum Operators associated to the Canonical Quantization of such Gauge System.

Review text

The author introduces the notion of ``parametrized relativistic gauge systems, thereby translating into a coordinate-free symplectic geometry setup some constructions of \textit{P. Hájicék} and \textit{K. Kuchař} [Phys. Rev. D(3) 41, No. 4, 1091-1104 (1990)]. Starting from the classical constraint algebra for such a system, he constructs the natural quantum operators and deduces the corresponding commutator algebra. In particular, the theory of conformal foliations is used to provide a natural factor ordering for the quantum operators.

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