On some meaningful inner product for real Klein—Gordon fields with positive semi-definite norm |
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Authors: | Frieder Kleefeld |
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Institution: | 1. Centro de Física das Interac??es Fundamentais (CFIF), Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
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Abstract: | A simple derivation of a meaningful, manifestly covariant inner product for real Klein—Gordon (KG) fields with positive semi-definite
norm is provided, which turns out — assuming a symmetric bilinear form — to be the real-KG-field limit of the inner product
for complex KG fields reviewed by A. Mostafazadeh and F. Zamani in December 2003, and February 2006 (quant-ph/0312078, quant-ph/0602151,
quant-ph/0602161). It is explicitly shown that the positive semi-definite norm associated with the derived inner product for
real KG fields measures the number of active positive and negative energy Fourier-modes of the real KG field on the relativistic
mass shell. The very existence of an inner product with positive semi-definite norm for the considered real, i.e. neutral,
KG fields shows that the metric operator entering the inner product does not contain the charge-conjugation operator. This
observation sheds some additional light on the meaning of the C operator in the CPT inner product of PT-symmetric quantum
mechanics defined by C.M. Bender, D.C. Brody and H.F. Jones. |
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Keywords: | Klein— Gordon equation inner product norm probability PT symmetry |
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