Quantum Ostrogradsky theorem

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)032MaRDI QIDQ1995075zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hayato Motohashi, Teruaki Suyama

Publication date 18 February 2021

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02483

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMdifferential and algebraic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: The Ostrogradsky theorem states that any classical Lagrangian that contains time derivatives higher than the first order and is nondegenerate with respect to the highest-order derivatives leads to an unbounded Hamiltonian which linearly depends on the canonical momenta. Recently, the original theorem has been generalized to nondegeneracy with respect to non-highest-order derivatives. These theorems have been playing a central role in construction of sensible higher-derivative theories. We explore quantization of such nondegenerate theories, and prove that Hamiltonian is still unbounded at the level of quantum field theory.

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