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${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded mechanics: the quantization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-03 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In the previous paper arXiv:2003.06470 we introduced the notion of Z2×Z2{\mathbb Z}_2\times{\mathbb Z}_2-graded classical mechanics and presented a general framework to construct, in the Lagrangian setting, the worldline sigma models invariant under a Z2×Z2{\mathbb Z}_2\times{\mathbb Z}_2-graded superalgebra. In this work we discuss at first the classical Hamiltonian formulation of some of these models and later present their canonical quantization. As the simplest application of the construction we recover the Z2×Z2{\mathbb Z}_2\times{\mathbb Z}_2-graded quantum Hamiltonian introduced by Bruce and Duplij in arXiv:1904.06975. We prove that this is the first example of a large class of Z2×Z2{\mathbb Z}_2\times{\mathbb Z}_2-graded quantum models. We derive in particular interacting multiparticle quantum Hamiltonians given by Hermitian, matrix, differential operators. The interacting terms appear as non-diagonal entries in the matrices. The construction of the Noether charges, both classical and quantum, is presented. A comprehensive discussion of the different Z2×Z2{\mathbb Z}_2\times{\mathbb Z}_2-graded symmetries possessed by the quantum Hamiltonians is given.

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@article{arxiv.2005.10759,
  title  = {${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded mechanics: the quantization},
  author = {N. Aizawa and Z. Kuznetsova and F. Toppan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.10759},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

30 pages. Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B

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