TY - JOUR
T1 - Ghost free systems with coexisting bosons and fermions
AU - Kimura, Rampei
AU - Sakakihara, Yuki
AU - Yamaguchi, Masahide
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Physical Society.
PY - 2017/8/15
Y1 - 2017/8/15
N2 - We study the coexistence system of both bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. Even if a Lagrangian does not include higher derivatives, fermionic ghosts exist. For a Lagrangian with up to first derivatives, we find the fermionic ghost free condition in Hamiltonian analysis, which is found to be the same as requiring that the equations of motion of fermions be first order in Lagrangian formulation. When fermionic degrees of freedom are present, the uniqueness of time evolution is not guaranteed a priori because of the Grassmann property. We confirm that the additional condition, which is introduced to close Hamiltonian analysis, also ensures the uniqueness of the time evolution of the system.
AB - We study the coexistence system of both bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. Even if a Lagrangian does not include higher derivatives, fermionic ghosts exist. For a Lagrangian with up to first derivatives, we find the fermionic ghost free condition in Hamiltonian analysis, which is found to be the same as requiring that the equations of motion of fermions be first order in Lagrangian formulation. When fermionic degrees of freedom are present, the uniqueness of time evolution is not guaranteed a priori because of the Grassmann property. We confirm that the additional condition, which is introduced to close Hamiltonian analysis, also ensures the uniqueness of the time evolution of the system.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.044015
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.044015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029042217
SN - 2470-0010
VL - 96
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 4
M1 - 045018
ER -