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Quantum mechanics of higher derivative systems and total derivative terms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

A general theory is presented of quantum mechanics of singular, non-autonomous, higher derivative systems. Within that general theory, nn-th order and mm-th order Lagrangians are shown to be quantum mechanically equivalent if their difference is a total derivative.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511027,
  title  = {Quantum mechanics of higher derivative systems and total derivative terms},
  author = {Yasuhito Kaminaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511027},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages, REVTeX, no figures