Looking for Carroll Particles in the Two-Time Spacetime

Abstract

We make an attempt to describe Carroll particles with a non-vanishing value of energy (i.e., the Carroll particles which always stay in rest) in the framework of two-time physics, developed in the series of papers by I. Bars and his co-authors. In the spacetime with one additional time dimension and one additional space dimension, where one can localize the symmetry which exists between generalized coordinates and their conjugate momenta. Such a localization implies the introduction of the gauge fields, which, in turn, implies the appearance of some first-class constraints. Choosing different gauge-fixing conditions and solving the constraints, we obtain different time parameters, Hamiltonians, and, generally, physical systems in the standard one-time spacetime. We find a set of gauge fixing conditions which gives the description of a Carroll particle in the one-time world. We construct the quantum theory of such a particle using an unexpected correspondence between our parametrization and that obtained by Bars for the hydrogen atom in 1999.