Modern Physics Letters A

Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and the Equivalent Classical Transformation

Augusto Agostinho Neto, Elso Drigo Filho

Published Apr 30, 1997• 5 citations

Abstract

In the usual supersymmetric quantum mechanics, the supercharges change the eigenfunction from the bosonic to fermionic sector and conversely. The classical correspondent of this transformation is shown to be the addition of a total time derivative of a purely imaginary function to the Lagrangian function of the system.

DOI: 10.1142/s0217732397000923

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