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BFV extensions for mechanical systems with Lie-2 symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-04-20 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider mechanical systems on TMT^*M with possibly irregular and reducible first class contraints linear in the momenta, which thus correspond to singular foliations on MM. According to a recent result, the latter ones have a Lie-infinity algebroid (M,Q)(\cal M,Q) covering them, where we restrict to the case of Lie-2 algebroids. We propose to consider TMT^*\cal M as a potential BFV extended phase space of the constrained system, such that the canonical lift of the nilpotent vector field QQ yields automatically a solution to the BFV master equation. We show that in this case, the BFV extension of the Hamiltonian, providing a second corner stone of the BFV formalism, may be obstructed. We identify the corresponding complex governing this second extension problem explicitly (the first extension problem was circumvented by means of the lift of the Lie-2 algebroid structure). We repeatedly come back to the example of angular momenta on TR3T^*\mathbb R^3: in this procedure, the standard free Hamiltonian does not have a BFV extension -- while it does so on T(R3\{0})T^*(\mathbb R^3 \backslash \{0 \}), with a relatively involved ghost contribution singular at the origin.

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@article{arxiv.2104.12257,
  title  = {BFV extensions for mechanical systems with Lie-2 symmetry},
  author = {Aliaksandr Hancharuk and Thomas Strobl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12257},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

10 pages; significant extension of the paper, including some shift in the argumentation

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