GENERALIZED CONFORMAL SYMMETRY AND EXTENDED OBJECTS FROM THE FREE PARTICLE

DOI10.1142/S0217751X98002286zbMATH Open0928.46054arXivhep-th/9707227OpenAlexW3102458487MaRDI QIDQ4261981FDOQ4261981

Víctor Aldaya, Manuel Calixto, Julio Guerrero

Publication date: 19 September 1999

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

Abstract: The algebra of linear and quadratic functions of basic observables on the phase space of either the free particle or the harmonic oscillator possesses a finite-dimensional anomaly. The quantization of these systems outside the critical values of the anomaly leads to a new degree of freedom which shares its internal character with spin, but nevertheless features an infinite number of different states. Both are associated with the transformation properties of wave functions under the Weyl-symplectic group $WSp(6,Re)$. The physical meaning of this new degree of freedom can be established, with a major scope, only by analysing the quantization of an infinite-dimensional algebra of diffeomorphisms generalizing string symmetry and leading to more general extended objects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9707227

zbMATH Keywords

anomalyquantizationharmonic oscillatorphase spacefree particlelinear and quadratic functions of basic observablesstring symmetryWeyl-symplectic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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