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Quantum mechanics of higher derivative systems and total derivative terms

Yasuhito Kaminaga

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9511027

Abstract

A general theory is presented of quantum mechanics of singular, non-autonomous, higher derivative systems. Within that general theory, n-th order and m-th order Lagrangians are shown to be quantum mechanically equivalent if their difference is a total derivative.

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