Pseudoclassical model for topologically massive gauge fields

Apr, 1997
8 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 02 (1998) 015
e-Print:
Report number:
  • TUM-HEP-272-97,
  • NF-DF-04-97

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Abstract:
A pseudoclassical model for P,T-invariant system of topologically massive U(1) gauge fields is analyzed. The model demonstrates a nontrivial relationship between continuous and discrete symmetries and reveals a phenomenon of ``classical quantization''. It allows one to identify SU(1,1) symmetry and S(2,1) supersymmetry as hidden symmetries of the corresponding quantum system. We show this P,T-invariant quantum system realizes an irreducible representation of a non-standard super-extension of the (2+1)-dimensional Poincare group.
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • mass: topological
  • parity
  • time reversal
  • quantization: constraint
  • Hamiltonian formalism