Supersymmetry vs ghosts

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2006-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0611023v3

J.Math.Phys.49:042104,2008

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Mathematical Physics

Final version to be published in JMP (April, 2008)

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2904474

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 $Q, \bar Q$ 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.

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