Quantizing non-Lagrangian gauge theories: an augmentation method

Details Quantizing non-Lagrangian gauge theories: an augmentation method Quantizing non-Lagrangian gauge theories: an augmentation method

2006-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612086v2

JHEP 0701:047,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

46 pages, minor corrections

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/047

We discuss a recently proposed method of quantizing general non-Lagrangian gauge theories. The method can be implemented in many different ways, in particular, it can employ a conversion procedure that turns an original non-Lagrangian field theory in $d$ dimensions into an equivalent Lagrangian topological field theory in $d+1$ dimensions. The method involves, besides the classical equations of motion, one more geometric ingredient called the Lagrange anchor. Different Lagrange anchors result in different quantizations of one and the same classical theory. Given the classical equations of motion and Lagrange anchor as input data, a new procedure, called the augmentation, is proposed to quantize non-Lagrangian dynamics. Within the augmentation procedure, the originally non-Lagrangian theory is absorbed by a wider Lagrangian theory on the same space-time manifold. The augmented theory is not generally equivalent to the original one as it has more physical degrees of freedom than the original theory. However, the extra degrees of freedom are factorized out in a certain regular way both at classical and quantum levels. The general techniques are exemplified by quantizing two non-Lagrangian models of physical interest.

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