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PT-symmetric quantum models living in an auxiliary Pontryagin space

Mathematical Physics 2015-10-16 v1 math.MP

Abstract

An extension of the scope of quantum theory is proposed in a way inspired by the recent heuristic as well as phenomenological success of the use of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians which are merely required self-adjoint in a Krein space with an indefinite metric (chosen, usually, as the operator of parity). In nuce, the parity-like operators are admitted to represent the mere indefinite metric in a Pontryagin space. A constructive version of such a generalized quantization strategy is outlined and, via a non-numerical illustrative example, found feasible.

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@article{arxiv.1110.1218,
  title  = {PT-symmetric quantum models living in an auxiliary Pontryagin space},
  author = {Miloslav Znojil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1218},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pp., 2 figs., extended version of a part of the contributed talk to the int. conf. IWOTA 2010 (Technische Universit\"at Berlin, Germany, July 12th-16th, 2010), cf. http://www3.math.tu-berlin.de/iwota_2010