BOSON SEA VERSUS DIRAC SEA: GENERAL FORMULATION OF THE BOSON SEA THROUGH SUPERSYMMETRY
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DOI10.1142/S0217751X04020233zbMATH Open1065.81591arXivhep-th/0312302MaRDI QIDQ4665306FDOQ4665306
Authors: Yoshinobu Habara, Masao Ninomiya, Holger Bech Nielsen 
Publication date: 11 April 2005
Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We consider the long standing problem in field theories of bosons that the boson vacuum does not consist of a `sea', unlike the fermion vacuum. We show with the help of supersymmetry considerations that the boson vacuum indeed does also consist of a sea in which the negative energy states are all "filled", analogous to the Dirac sea of the fermion vacuum, and that a hole produced by the annihilation of one negative energy boson is an anti-particle. Here, we must admit that it is only possible if we allow --as occurs in the usual formalism anyway-- that the "Hilbert space" for the single particle bosons is not positive definite. This might be formally coped with by introducing the notion of a double harmonic oscillator, which is obtained by extending the condition imposed on the wave function. This double harmonic oscillator includes not only positive energy states but also negative energy states. We utilize this method to construct a general formalism for a boson sea analogous to the Dirac sea, irrespective of the existence of supersymmetry. The physical result is consistent with that of the ordinary second quantization formalism. We finally suggest applications of our method to the string theories.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312302
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