NONPERTURBATIVE QUANTIZATION OF PHANTOM AND GHOST THEORIES: RELATING DEFINITE AND INDEFINITE REPRESENTATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X07036580zbMath1138.81040arXivhep-th/0610185MaRDI QIDQ5296118

André van Tonder, Miquel Dorca

Publication date: 1 August 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610185

zbMATH Keywords

ghosts and phantoms; indefinite inner product representations; Lee-wick theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T70: Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods

81S40: Path integrals in quantum mechanics

81T16: Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory

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