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Supersymmetric field theory with benign ghosts

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct a supersymmetric (1+1)-dimensional field theory involving extra derivatives and associated ghosts: the spectrum of the Hamiltonian is not bounded from below, neither from above. In spite of that, there is neither classical, nor quantum collapse and unitarity is preserved.

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@article{arxiv.1306.6066,
  title  = {Supersymmetric field theory with benign ghosts},
  author = {A. V. Smilga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6066},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Final version published in J.Phys. A; 8 pages, 3 figures

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