Stable self-interacting Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
From MaRDI portal
Publication:2872964
DOI10.1142/S0217732313501654zbMATH Open1279.83032arXiv1302.5257OpenAlexW1963815346MaRDI QIDQ2872964FDOQ2872964
Authors: Matej Pavšič 
Publication date: 17 January 2014
Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: It is shown that the interacting Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator necessarily leads to a description with a Hamiltonian that contains positive and negative energies associated with two oscillators. Descriptions with a positive definite Hamiltonians, considered by some authors, can hold only for a free Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator. We demonstrate that the solutions of a self-interacting Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator are stable on islands in the parameter space, as already observed in the literature. If we slightly modify the system, by considering a sine interaction term, and/or by taking unequal masses of the two oscillators, then the system is stable on the continents that extend from zero to infinity in the parameter space. Therefore, the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator is quite acceptable physical system.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5257
Recommendations
- Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator and negative energies
- Comments on the dynamics of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- A perturbation theory approach to the stability of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- Energy and stability of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- On the stability of coherent states for Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
Hamilton's equations (70H05) Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H50) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)
Cites Work
- Solution to the ghost problem in fourth order derivative theories
- A Hamiltonian formulation of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator that yields a stable and unitary quantum system
- Remarks on quantization of Pais–Uhlenbeck oscillators
- On Field Theories with Non-Localized Action
- Dirac quantization of the Pais-Uhlenbeck fourth order oscillator
- Ghost-free higher-derivative theory
- Physical states in matter-coupled dilaton gravity
- Pseudo Euclidean-signature harmonic oscillator, quantum field theory and vanishing cosmological constant.
- Supersymmetry versus ghosts
- A note on the Pais-Uhlenbeck model and its coherent states
- Benign vs. malicious ghosts in higher-derivative theories
- On the unitarity of higher derivative and nonlocal theories
- An algebraic approach to laying a ghost to rest
- On Dirac's New Method of Field Quantization
- Astrophysical evidence for the non-Hermitian but \(PT\)-symmetric Hamiltonian of conformal gravity
Cited In (29)
- An alternative Hamiltonian formulation for the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- Stable compact motions of a particle driven by a central force in six-dimensional spacetime
- Hamiltonian dynamical systems: symbolical, numerical and graphical study
- Agravity
- Comments on the dynamics of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- Point particle with extrinsic curvature as a boundary of a Nambu-Goto string: classical and quantum model
- The odd-order Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- Time-dependent Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator and its decomposition
- Remark on higher-derivative mechanics with \(l\)-conformal Galilei symmetry
- Energy and stability of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- A new perspective on quantum field theory revealing possible existence of another kind of fermions forming dark matter
- Nonlinear evolution of disturbances in higher time-derivative theories
- On the stability of a nonlinear oscillator with higher derivatives
- Confining complex ghost degrees of freedom
- On the stability of coherent states for Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- A higher-order Skyrme model
- Various disguises of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- A non-trivial zero length limit of the Nambu-Goto string
- The noisy Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- Classical and quantum dynamics of gyroscopic systems and dark energy
- Higher derivative Hamiltonians with benign ghosts from affine Toda lattices
- On the quantisation of complex higher derivative theories and avoiding the Ostrogradsky ghost
- Higher order gravities and the Strong Equivalence Principle
- Stable interactions via proper deformations
- A perturbation theory approach to the stability of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
- Global and local stability for ghosts coupled to positive energy degrees of freedom
- Driving quantum systems with superoscillations
- Horizonless ultracompact objects and dark matter in quadratic gravity
- Entanglement of higher-derivative oscillators in holographic systems
This page was built for publication: Stable self-interacting Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2872964)
