Toward a quantum theory of tachyon fields

DOI10.1142/S0217751X1650041XzbMATH Open1337.81117arXiv1603.01294OpenAlexW3101516296MaRDI QIDQ2809407FDOQ2809407

Authors: Charles Schwartz 

Publication date: 30 May 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct momentum space expansions for the wave functions that solve the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations for tachyons, recognizing that the mass shell for such fields is very different from what we are used to for ordinary (slower than light) particles. We find that we can postulate commutation or anticommutation rules for the operators that lead to physically sensible results: causality, for tachyon fields, means that there is no connection between spacetime points separated by a timelike interval. Calculating the conserved charge and 4-momentum for these fields allows us to interpret the number operators for particles and antiparticles in a consistent manner; and we see that helicity plays a critical role for the spinor field. Some questions about Lorentz invariance are addressed and some remain unresolved; and we show how to handle the group representation for tachyon spinors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01294

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationtachyonsfield theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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