An alternative canonical approach to the ghost problem in a complexified extension of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.053zbMath1208.81111arXiv0905.0589OpenAlexW2104599123MaRDI QIDQ1018759

Hugo A. Morales-Técotl, Luis F. Urrutia, Aldo Dector, José David Vergara

Publication date: 21 May 2009

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0589

zbMATH Keywords

quantum canonical transformationshigher order derivative models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

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