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In the framework of the covariant canonical formalism of quadratic gravity, we consider the problem of confinement of massive ghost which violates the unitarity of the physical S-matrix. It is shown that if there is a bound state between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Ichiro Oda

In this work, we investigate higher-derivative quantum field theories and the problem of Ostrogradsky instability within an open-system Keldysh-Lindblad framework. Coupling the ghost sector to dissipative baths generates non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Y. M. P. Gomes

We exploit the key concepts of the augmented version of superfield approach to Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism to derive the superspace (SUSP) dual unitary operator (and its Hermitian conjugate) and demonstrate their utility in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-28 T. Bhanja , N. Srinivas , R. P. Malik

Preservation of coherence is a fundamental yet subtle phenomenon in open systems. We uncover its relation to symmetries respected by the system Hamiltonian and its coupling to the environment. We discriminate between local and global…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Jonathan Dubois , Ulf Saalmann , Jan Michael Rost

We study the cohomology of the massless BRST complex of the Type IIB pure spinor superstring in flat space. In particular, we find that the cohomology at the ghost number three is nontrivial and transforms in the same representation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-27 Andrei Mikhailov

The loop quantization of the conformal Brans-Dicke cosmology is explored in the spatially flat and Bianchi-I setting. The scalar and conformal constraints governing the canonical model are quantized using the loop techniques. The physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Chun-Yen Lin , Xiangjing Liu , Yongge Ma , Cong Zhang

In computational physics it is standard to approximate continuum systems with discretised representations. Here we consider a specific discretisation of the continuum complex Hilbert space of quantum mechanics - a discretisation where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 T. N. Palmer

Thermodynamic limit evolution of a closed quantum Heisenberg-type spin model with mean-field interactions is characterized by classifying all the symmetries of the equations of motion. It is shown that parameters of the model induce a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Rytis Paškauskas

We investigate the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism for gauge theories on spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes, with or without a cosmological constant ($\Lambda\geq0$). This is illustrated through the example of scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Karan Fernandes , Amitabha Lahiri

We provide an alternative to the gauge covariant horizontality condition which is responsible for the derivation of the nilpotent (anti-)BRST symmetry transformations for the gauge and (anti-)ghost fields of a (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. P. Malik

The local, covariant, continuous, anticommuting and nilpotent Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry transformations for all the fields of a (0 + 1)-dimensional spinning relativistic particle are obtained in the framework…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 R. P. Malik

Recently, the superstring was covariantly quantized using the BRST-like operator $Q = \oint \lambda^\alpha d_\alpha$ where $\lambda^\alpha$ is a pure spinor and $d_\alpha$ are the fermionic Green-Schwarz constraints. By performing a field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Nathan Berkovits

We construct a holographic dual of the Schwinger-Keldysh effective action for the dissipative low-energy dynamics of relativistic charged matter at strong coupling in a fixed thermal background. To do so, we use a mixed signature bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Jan de Boer , Michal P. Heller , Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva

Position deformation of a Heisenberg algebra and Hilbert space representation of both maximal length and minimal momentum uncertainties may lead to loss of Hermiticity of some operators that generate this algebra. Consequently, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Thomas Katsekpor , Latévi M. Lawson , Prince K. Osei , Ibrahim Nonkané

We introduce novel upper bounds on the Hilbert space dimensions required to realize quantum correlations in Bell scenarios. We start by considering bipartite cases wherein one of the two parties has two settings and two outcomes. Regardless…

We concentrate on a treatment of a Higgs-Coulomb duality as an absence of manifest phase transition between ordered and disordered phases of 2d $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ theories. We consider these examples of QFTs in the Schr\"odinger picture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-13 Dmitry Galakhov

Recent arguments based on the quantum extremal surface formula or the gravitational path integral have given fairly compelling evidence that the Hilbert space of quantum gravity in a closed universe is one-dimensional and real. How can this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-20 Daniel Harlow , Mykhaylo Usatyuk , Ying Zhao

We show that there is (p-1)(p'-1) dimensional semi-relative BRST cohomology at each non-positive ghost number in the (p,p') minimal conformal field theory coupled to two dimensional quantum gravity. These closed string states are related to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Shamit Kachru

The BRST operator cohomology of $N=2$ $2d$ supergravity coupled to matter is presented. Descent equations for primary superfields of the matter sector are derived. We find one copy of the cohomology at ghost number one, two independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Amit Giveon , Martin Rocek

A unitary transformation which relates a many-body quantum mechanics with N=2 Schrodinger supersymmetry to a set of decoupled superparticles is proposed. The simplification in dynamics is achieved at a price of a nonlocal realization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-13 Anton Galajinsky , Ivan Masterov