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经典和量子鬼

Classical and quantum ghosts

Fulvio Sbisà

摘要:

这些笔记的目的是提供一个自我包含的审查,为什么它是一个问题,当一个理论的解决方案拥有鬼场之间的微扰模式。我们定义了鬼场是什么,我们表明,它的存在与一个经典的不稳定性,每当鬼场与标准场相互作用。然后,我们表明,不稳定性是更严重的量子水平,微扰鬼只能存在于低能量有效的理论。然而,如果我们不考虑非常特别的选择,与观测约束的兼容性意味着低能有效鬼只能以放弃洛伦兹不变性或高于截止值的局部性为代价存在,在这种情况下,截止值必须远低于我们目前在粒子对撞机中探测的能量尺度。我们还评论额外的自由度自发地打破洛伦兹不变性的可能作用。

英文摘要:

The aim of these notes is to provide a self-contained review of why it is generically a problem when a solution of a theory possesses ghost fields among the perturbation modes. We define what a ghost field is and we show that its presence is associated to a classical instability whenever the ghost field interacts with standard fields. We then show that the instability is more severe at quantum level, and that perturbative ghosts can exist only in low energy effective theories. However, if we don't consider very ad-hoc choices, compatibility with observational constraints implies that low energy effective ghosts can exist only at the price of giving up Lorentz-invariance or locality above the cut-off, in which case the cut-off has to be much lower that the energy scales we currently probe in particle colliders. We also comment on the possible role of extra degrees of freedom which break Lorentz-invariance spontaneously.

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