Quantization of pseudoclassical systems in the Schrödinger realization

DOI10.1063/5.0003516zbMATH Open1443.81046arXiv1509.00529OpenAlexW3026693377MaRDI QIDQ3298946FDOQ3298946

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Publication date: 16 July 2020

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

Abstract: We examine the quantization of pseudoclassical dynamical systems, models that have classically anticommuting variables, in the Schr"odinger picture. We quantize these systems, which can be viewed as classical models of particle spin, using the generalized Gupta-Bleuler method as well as the reduced phase space method in even dimensions. With minimal modifications, the standard constructions of Schr"odinger quantum mechanics of constrained systems work for pseudoclassical systems. We generalize the standard Schr"odinger norm and implement the correct adjointness properties of observables and constraints. We construct the state space corresponding to spinors as physical wave functions of anticommuting variables, finding that there are superselection sectors in both the physical and ghost subspaces. The physical states are isomorphic to those of the Dirac-K"ahler formulation of fermions though the inner product in Dirac-K"ahler theory is not equivalent to ours.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00529

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zbMATH Keywords

superselection sectors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Canonical quantization (81S08)

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