Supersymmetry versus ghosts

DOI10.1063/1.2904474zbMATH Open1152.81591arXivmath-ph/0611023OpenAlexW1840356856MaRDI QIDQ5504857

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Publication date: 23 January 2009

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Abstract: We consider the simplest nontrivial supersymmetric quantum mechanical system involving higher derivatives. We unravel the existence of additional bosonic and fermionic integrals of motion forming a nontrivial algebra. This allows one to obtain the exact solution both in the classical and quantum cases. The supercharges $$ are not anymore Hermitially conjugate to each other, which allows for the presence of negative energies in the spectrum. We show that the spectrum of the Hamiltonian is unbounded from below. It is discrete and infinitely degenerate in the free oscillator-like case and becomes continuous running from $-infty$ to $infty$ when interactions are added. Notwithstanding the absence of the ground state, there is no collapse, which suggests that a unitary evolution operator may be defined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0611023

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