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On the triviality of higher derivative thoeries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-30 v2

Abstract

The higher-derivative theories with degenerate frequencies exhibit BRST symmetry (O. Rivelles, Phys. Lett. B577 (2003), 147). In the present paper meaning of BRST invariance condition is analyzed. The BRST symmetry is related to nondiagonalizability of the Hamiltonian and it is shown that BRST condition singles out the subspace spanned by proper eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian.

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@article{arxiv.1110.0672,
  title  = {On the triviality of higher derivative thoeries},
  author = {K. Andrzejewski and J. Gonera and P. Machalski and K. Bolonek-Lason},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.0672},
  year   = {2015}
}

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few misprints corrected