The generalized Peierls bracket

DOI10.1006/APHY.1994.1117zbMATH Open0806.58056arXivhep-th/9308150OpenAlexW3121760766WikidataQ62398237 ScholiaQ62398237MaRDI QIDQ1338712FDOQ1338712

Donald Marolf

Publication date: 19 February 1995

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We first extend the Peierls algebra of gauge invariant functions from the space $calS$ of classical solutions to the space $calH$ of histories used in path integration and some studies of decoherence. We then show that it may be generalized in a number of ways to act on gauge dependent functions on $calH$. These generalizations (referred to as class I) depend on the choice of an ``invariance breaking term," which must be chosen carefully so that the gauge dependent algebra is a Lie algebra. Another class of invariance breaking terms is also found that leads to an algebra of gauge dependent functions, but only on the space $calS$ of solutions. By the proper choice of invariance breaking term, we can construct a generalized Peierls algebra that agrees with any gauge dependent algebra constructed through canonical or gauge fixing methods, as well as Feynman and Landau ``gauge." Thus, generalized Peierls algebras present a unified description of these techniques. We study the properties of generalized Peierls algebras and their pull backs to spaces of partial solutions and find that they may posses constraints similar to the canonical case. Such constraints are always first class, and quantization may proceed accordingly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9308150

zbMATH Keywords

decoherencepath integrationgauge-invariant functionsinvariance-breakingPeierls algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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