Constraint quantization of a worldline system invariant under reciprocal relativity: II

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/46/465203MaRDI QIDQ3548407zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter D Jarvis, S. O. Morgan

Publication date 12 December 2008

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4794

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: We consider the world-line quantisation of a system invariant under the symmetries of reciprocal relativity. Imposition of the first class constraint, the generator of local time reparametrisations, on physical states enforces identification of the world-line cosmological constant with a fixed value of the quadratic Casimir of the quaplectic symmetry group Q(3,1) ~ U(3,1) x H(4), the semi-direct product of the pseudo-unitary group with the Weyl-Heisenberg group. In our previous paper, J Phys A 40 (2007) 12095--12111, the `spin' degrees of freedom were handled as covariant oscillators, leading to a unique choice of cosmological constant, required for projecting out negative-norm states from the physical gauge-invariant states. In the present paper the spin degrees of freedom are treated as standard oscillators with positive norm states (wherein Lorentz boosts are not number-conserving in the auxiliary space; reciprocal transformations are of course not spin-conserving in general). As in the covariant approach, the spectrum of the square of the energy-momentum vector is continuous over the entire real line, and thus includes tachyonic (spacelike) and null branches. Adopting standard frames, the Wigner method on each branch is implemented, to decompose the auxiliary space into unitary irreducible representations of the respective little algebras and additional degeneracy algebras. The physical state space is vastly enriched as compared with the covariant approach, and contains towers of integer spin massive states, as well as unconventional massless representations, with continuous Euclidean momentum and arbitrary integer helicity.

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