Fermionic anomalies in quantum-mechanical relativistic problems

We discuss the existence of ambiguities in the quantization of systems with odd Grassmann degrees of freedom, or anomalies of fermionic nature as we call them, which could lead us to an incorrect quantum counterpart. We propose in this work a way of avoiding such ambiguities in the case of relativis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Mesa, AD, Romero, RPMY
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1996
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Sistema de Información de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fciencias.unam.mx:11154/2936
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11154/2936
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Physics, Multidisciplinary
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Sumario:We discuss the existence of ambiguities in the quantization of systems with odd Grassmann degrees of freedom, or anomalies of fermionic nature as we call them, which could lead us to an incorrect quantum counterpart. We propose in this work a way of avoiding such ambiguities in the case of relativistic mechanics, which consists in including the odd degrees of freedom into a generalization of the momentum, that fully contains the anomalies. We consider this generalized momentum as the relevant variable to quantize, mentioning their gauge transformation properties. We illustrate our results with some examples. In particular, we discuss the Dirac oscillator as a typical case of the problems we are dealing with.