Published January 25, 1990
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Journal article
Covariantly quantizable superparticles
- 1. State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook (USA). Inst. for Theoretical Physics
- 2. New York Univ., NY (USA). Dept. of Physics
Description
The formulation of the superparticle with second-class constraints cannot be quantized covariantly. Naive replacement of these constraints with first-class ones does not solve the problem: Gupta-Bleuler quantization is not covariant, and BRST quantization gives the wrong cohomology. We show how other first-class formulations solve these problems. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 235
- Journal Issue
- 1/2
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 106-112
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 21032904
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; ANNIHILATION OPERATORS; CLIFFORD ALGEBRA; CREATION OPERATORS; FERMIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HILBERT SPACE; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; SECOND QUANTIZATION; SO-8 GROUPS; SPARTICLES; SPINOR FIELDS; SUPERSYMMETRY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- BANACH SPACE; BOSONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SO GROUPS; SPACE; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract PHY-89-08495; PHY-87-15995