Batalin-Tyutin quantization of dynamical boundary of AdS2

Abstract

In a two-dimensional AdS space, a dynamical boundary of AdS space was described by a one-dimensional quantum-mechanical Hamiltonian with a coupling between the bulk and boundary system. In this paper, we present a Lagrangian corresponding to the Hamiltonian through the Legendre transformation with a constraint. In Dirac's constraint analysis, we find two primary constraints without secondary constraints; however, they are fully second-class. In order to make the second-class constraint system into a first-class constraint system, we employ the Batalin-Tyutin Hamiltonian method, where the extended system reduces to the original one for the unitary gauge condition. In the spirit of the AdS/CFT correspondence, it raises a question whether a well-defined extended bulk theory corresponding to the extended boundary theory can exist or not.

Keywords

• Batalin-Tyutin quantization
• Constraint system
• Hamiltonian formalism
• Dirac brackets
• AdS/CFT