TY - JOUR
T1 - Odd coset quantum mechanics
AU - Ivanov, Evgeny
AU - Mezincescu, Luca
AU - Pashnev, Anatoly
AU - Townsend, Paul K.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank S. Gukov, S. Krivonos, M. Berkooz, and L. Susskind, for helpful discussions. L.M. thanks the theory group at JINR, the physics department of the Weizmann Institute, the GR group of DAMTP, and the TG of Stanford University, for hospitality and partial financial support. L.M. was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-9870101. E.I. and A.P. acknowledge a partial support from INTAS grant No. 00-0254. E.I. was partially supported by grants DFG No. 436 RUS 113/669, RFBR-DFG 02-02-04002 and RFBR-CNRS 01-02-22005.
PY - 2003/7/24
Y1 - 2003/7/24
N2 - The standard quantum states of n complex Grassmann variables with a free-particle Lagrangian transform as a spinor of SO(2n). However, the same 'free-fermion' model has a non-linearly realized SU(n|1) symmetry; it can be viewed as the mechanics of a 'particle' on the Grassmann-odd coset space SU(n|1)/U(n). We implement a quantization of this model for which the states with non-zero norm transform as a representation of SU(n|1), the representation depending on the U(1) charge of the wave-function. For n = 2 the wave-function can be interpreted as a BRST superfield.
AB - The standard quantum states of n complex Grassmann variables with a free-particle Lagrangian transform as a spinor of SO(2n). However, the same 'free-fermion' model has a non-linearly realized SU(n|1) symmetry; it can be viewed as the mechanics of a 'particle' on the Grassmann-odd coset space SU(n|1)/U(n). We implement a quantization of this model for which the states with non-zero norm transform as a representation of SU(n|1), the representation depending on the U(1) charge of the wave-function. For n = 2 the wave-function can be interpreted as a BRST superfield.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00393-9
DO - 10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00393-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037481695
VL - 566
SP - 175
EP - 182
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 1-2
ER -