Quantization of a spinning particle in an arbitrary background

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/15/312MaRDI QIDQ2752509zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. P. Gavrilov, D. M. Gitman

Publication date 13 March 2002

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0104121

zbMATH Keywords

canonical quantizationrelativistic particle quantifizationspinning particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: The article is a natural continuation of the papers by Gavrilov and Gitman (Class.Quant.Grav. {�f 17} (2000) L133; Int. J. Mod. Phys. A15 (2000) 4499) devoted to relativistic particle quantization. Here we generalize the problem, considering the quantization of a spinning particle in arbitrary gravitational background. The nontriviality of such a generalization is related to the neccessity of solving complicated ordering problems. Similar to the flat space-time case, we show in the course of the canonical quantization how a consistent relativistic quantum mechanics of spinning particle in gravitational and electromagnetic backgrounds can be constructed.

Review text

The paper is dealing with the problem of the canonical quantization of the pseudo-classical model of spinning relativistic particles moving in arbitrary electromagnetic and gravitational backgrounds. Continuing their work done for particles in external electromagnetic fields living in a flat space-time, the authors show that and how a consistent quantum theory can be constructed in the more general case of a curved space-time. In particular, they prove that the classical theory (together with some positivity condition) give enough information to arrive at a unique definition of the quantum Hamiltonian.

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