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Fractional Dirac Bracket and Quantization for Constrained Systems

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-27 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

So far, it is not well known how to deal with dissipative systems. There are many paths of investigation in the literature and none of them present a systematic and general procedure to tackle the problem. On the other hand, it is well known that the fractional formalism is a powerful alternative when treating dissipative problems. In this paper we propose a detailed way of attacking the issue using fractional calculus to construct an extension of the Dirac brackets in order to carry out the quantization of nonconservative theories through the standard canonical way. We believe that using the extended Dirac bracket definition it will be possible to analyze more deeply gauge theories starting with second-class systems.

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@article{arxiv.1102.4532,
  title  = {Fractional Dirac Bracket and Quantization for Constrained Systems},
  author = {Everton M. C. Abreu and Cresus F. L. Godinho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.4532},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Revtex 4.1. 9 pages, two-column. Final version to appear in Physical Review E

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