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PT-Symmetric Pseudo-Hermitian Relativistic Quantum Mechanics With a Maximal Mass

Mathematical Physics 2012-07-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

The quantum-field model described by non-Hermitian, but a PT{\cal PT}-symmetric Hamiltonian is considered. It is shown by the algebraic way that the limiting of the physical mass value mmmax=m12/2m2m \leq m_{max}= {m_1}^2/2m_2 takes place for the case of a fermion field with a γ5\gamma_5-dependent mass term (mm1+γ5m2m\rightarrow m_1 +\gamma_5 m_2 ). In the regions of unbroken PT\cal PT symmetry the Hamiltonian HH has another symmetry represented by a linear operator C \cal C. We exactly construct this operator by using a non-perturbative method. In terms of C \cal C operator we calculate a time-independent inner product with a positive-defined norm. As a consequence of finiteness mass spectrum we have the PT\cal PT-symmetric Hamiltonian in the areas (mmmax)(m\leq m_{max}), but beyond this limits PT\cal PT-symmetry is broken. Thus, we obtain that the basic results of the fermion field model with a γ5\gamma_5-dependent mass term is equivalent to the Model with a Maximal Mass which for decades has been developed by V.Kadyshevsky and his colleagues. In their numerous papers the condition of finiteness of elementary particle mass spectrum was introduced in a purely geometric way, just as the velocity of light is a maximal velocity in the special relativity. The adequate geometrical realization of the limiting mass hypothesis is added up to the choice of (anti) de Sitter momentum space of the constant curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1207.5463,
  title  = {PT-Symmetric Pseudo-Hermitian Relativistic Quantum Mechanics With a Maximal Mass},
  author = {V. N. Rodionov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5463},
  year   = {2012}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0708.4205, arXiv:0903.4420, and with arXiv:quant-ph/0605233 by other authors