Ghosts of ghosts for second class constraints

Details Ghosts of ghosts for second class constraints Ghosts of ghosts for second class constraints

1993-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9306100v1

Phys.Lett. B315 (1993) 283-286

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

7 pages in LaTex, ULB-PMIF/93-02

Scientific paper

10.1016/0370-2693(93)91613-R

When one uses the Dirac bracket, second class constraints become first class. Hence, they are amenable to the BRST treatment characteristic of ordinary first class constraints. This observation is the starting point of a recent investigation by Batalin and Tyutin, in which all the constraints are put on the same footing. However, because second class constraints identically vanish as operators in the quantum theory, they are quantum-mechanically reducible and require therefore ghosts of ghosts. Otherwise, the BRST cohomology would not yield the correct physical spectrum. We discuss how to incorporate this feature in the formalism and show that it leads to an infinite tower of ghosts of ghosts. An alternative treatment, in which the brackets of the ghosts are modified, is also mentioned.

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