A comparative study of Laplacians and Schrödinger-Lichnerowicz-Weitzenböck identities in Riemannian and antisymplectic geometry

DOI10.1063/1.3152575MaRDI QIDQ3069155zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Igor A. Batalin, Klaus Bering

Publication date 24 January 2011

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4269

zbMATH Keywords

geometryDirac equationmatrix algebraquantum theorymathematical operatorsSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: We introduce an antisymplectic Dirac operator and antisymplectic gamma matrices. We explore similarities between, on one hand, the Schroedinger-Lichnerowicz formula for spinor bundles in Riemannian spin geometry, which contains a zeroth-order term proportional to the Levi-Civita scalar curvature, and, on the other hand, the nilpotent, Grassmann-odd, second-order Delta operator in antisymplectic geometry, which in general has a zeroth-order term proportional to the odd scalar curvature of an arbitrary antisymplectic and torsionfree connection that is compatible with the measure density. Finally, we discuss the close relationship with the two-loop scalar curvature term in the quantum Hamiltonian for a particle in a curved Riemannian space.

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