I'm looking for a Lorentz covariant expression of Noether charges and I found this article: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701268, section II-A in particular.
Consider specifically eq. (20-21), they claim: Qμ=12(ϕ,Pμ⊳ϕ), Q is the conserved charge, "⊳" is just an "acting on" symbol and the inner product is defined by (ε is the sign function): (ϕ1,ϕ2)=∫d4pδ(p2−m2)ε(p0)˜ϕ∗1(−p)˜ϕ2(p).
˜ϕ is the fourier transform of ϕ.
Hence the Noether Charge is Qμ=12∫d4pδ(p2−m2)ε(p0)pμ˜ϕ∗(−p)˜ϕ(p).
Now I'm struggling to get the well known quantised expression in QFT: Qμ=∫d3ppμa†(→p)a(→p),[a†(→p),a(→q)]=−δ3(→p−→q)
from (1), by plugging in usual scalar klein gordon field with creation and annihilation operators..
If I'm not wrong (1) in coordinate space looks like ∫d4xd4yϕ(x)Δ(x−y)(−i∂ϕ(y)∂yμ)=Qμ,
where Δ is the usual commutator function Δ(x−y)=∫d4pε(p0)δ(p2−m2)e−ip⋅(x−y). Just by substituting in (2) ϕ(x)=∫d3p√2ω→p(a(→p)e−ip⋅x+a†(→p)eip⋅x) I don't seem to be getting the right answer.
Maybe I'm doing some calculation wrong or misinterpreted the article. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
My try:
For instance writing ϕ(x)=∫d4pa(p)δ(p2−m2)e−ip⋅x then ˜ϕ(p)=a(p)δ(p2−m2) and (1) becomes Qμ=12∫d4pε(p0)pμa(−p)a(p)δ(p2−m2)δ(p2−m2)δ(p2−m2).
Is this right? How to work out the three deltas? I could use the identity δ(x)f(x)=δ(x)f(0) with f=δ twice to getδ(p2−m2)δ(p2−m2)δ(p2−m2)=δ(p2−m2)δ(0)δ(0)=δ(p2−m2)⋅S, where S is an (infinite) surface contribution which I currenlty fail to see how cancels out.. what am I missing? Maybe they're using a different convention of their fourier transforms?