Klein's programme and quantum mechanics

DOI10.1142/S0219887815600063MaRDI QIDQ3455872zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. Clemente-Gallardo, Giuseppe Marmo

Publication date 11 December 2015

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05530

zbMATH Keywords

geometric quantum mechanicsKlein programmeopen quantum systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Operator spaces and completely bounded maps (46L07) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: We review the geometrical formulation of Quantum Mechanics to identify, according to Klein's programme, the corresponding group of transformations. For closed systems, it is the unitary group. For open quantum systems, the semigroup of Kraus maps contains, as a maximal subgroup, the general linear group. The same group emerges as the exponentiation of the $C^{\ast }$--algebra associated with the quantum system, when thought of as a Lie algebra. Thus, open quantum systems seem to identify the general linear group as associated with quantum mechanics and moreover suggest to extend the Klein programme also to groupoids. The usual unitary group emerges as a maximal compact subgroup of the general linear group.

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