Covariant scalar representation of and quantization of the scalar relativistic particle

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/29/6/011MaRDI QIDQ4229729zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter D Jarvis, I. Tsohantjis

Publication date 15 July 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506129

zbMATH Keywords

constraint quantizationBFV-BRST methodscovariant scalar representationorthosymplectic extension of Poincaré space-time symmetry algebrascalar relativistic particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: A covariant scalar representation of $iosp(d,2/2)$ is constructed and analysed in comparison with existing methods for the quantization of the scalar relativistic particle. It is found that, with appropriately defined wavefunctions, this $iosp(d,2/2)$ produced representation can be identified with the state space arising from the canonical BFV-BRST quantization of the modular invariant, unoriented scalar particle (or antiparticle) with admissible gauge fixing conditions. For this model, the cohomological determination of physical states can thus be obtained purely from the representation theory of the $iosp(d,2/2)$ algebra.

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