Is string interaction the origin of quantum mechanics?

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.10.053MaRDI QIDQ2257264zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. Bars, Dmitry Rychkov

Publication date 24 February 2015

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6833

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: String theory developed by demanding consistency with quantum mechanics. In this paper we wish to reverse the reasoning. We pretend open string field theory is a fully consistent definition of the theory - it is at least a self consistent sector. Then we find in its structure that the rules of quantum mechanics emerge from the non-commutative nature of the basic string joining/splitting interactions, thus deriving rather than assuming the quantum commutation rules among the usual canonical quantum variables for all physical systems derivable from open string field theory. Morally we would apply such an argument to M-theory to cover all physics. If string or M-theory really underlies all physics, it seems that the door has been opened to an understanding of the origins of quantum mechanics.

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