Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-08-16
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
39 pages, University of Texas preprint UTTG-20-91, UTREL-910610. (this is an updated version of the original preprint)
Scientific paper
A Lagrangian treatment of the quantization of first class Hamiltonian systems with constraints and Hamiltonian linear and quadratic in the momenta respectively is performed. The ``first reduce and then quantize'' and the ``first quantize and then reduce'' (Dirac's) methods are compared. A new source of ambiguities in this latter approach is revealed and its relevance on issues concerning self-consistency and equivalence with the ``first reduce'' method is emphasized. One of our main results is the relation between the propagator obtained {\it \`a la Dirac} and the propagator in the full space, eq. (5.25).As an application of the formalism developed, quantization on coset spaces of compact Lie groups is presented. In this case it is shown that a natural selection of a Dirac quantization allows for full self-consistency and equivalence. Finally, the specific case of the propagator on a two-dimensional sphere $S^2$ viewed as the coset space $SU(2)/U(1)$ is worked out.
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