On some meaningful inner product for real Klein-Gordon fields with positive semi-definite norm

DOI10.1007/S10582-006-0395-9zbMATH Open1110.81067arXivquant-ph/0606070OpenAlexW3106447994MaRDI QIDQ871899FDOQ871899

Authors: Frieder Kleefeld 

Publication date: 27 March 2007

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

Abstract: A simple derivation of a meaningful, manifestly covariant inner product for real Klein-Gordon (KG) fields with positive semi-definite norm is provided which turns out - assuming a symmetric bilinear form - to be the real-KG-field limit of the inner product for complex KG fields reviewed by A. Mostafazadeh and F. Zamani in December, 2003, and February, 2006 (quant-ph/0312078, quant-ph/0602151, quant-ph/0602161). It is explicitly shown that the positive semi-definite norm associated with the derived inner product for real KG fields measures the number of active positive and negative energy Fourier modes of the real KG field on the relativistic mass shell. The very existence of an inner product with positive semi-definite norm for the considered real, i.e. neutral, KG fields shows that the metric operator entering the inner product does not contain the charge-conjugation operator. This observation sheds some additional light on the meaning of the C operator in the CPT inner product of PT-symmetric Quantum Mechanics defined by C.M. Bender, D.C. Brody and H.F. Jones.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0606070

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zbMATH Keywords

probabilityKlein-Gordon equationPT symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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