Multi-time wave functions versus multiple timelike dimensions

DOI10.1007/S10701-017-0120-5MaRDI QIDQ1699593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Matthias Lienert, Sören Petrat, Roderich Tumulka

Publication date 23 February 2018

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03376

zbMATH Keywords

existence of solutionsLorentz invariancepseudo-Riemannian metricrelativistic quantum theoryultrahyperbolic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

Abstract: Multi-time wave functions are wave functions for multi-particle quantum systems that involve several time variables (one per particle). In this paper we contrast them with solutions of wave equations on a space-time with multiple timelike dimensions, i.e., on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold whose metric has signature such as $++--$ or $++------$, instead of $+---$. Despite the superficial similarity, the two behave very differently: Whereas wave equations in multiple timelike dimensions are typically mathematically ill-posed and presumably unphysical, relevant Schr"odinger equations for multi-time wave functions possess for every initial datum a unique solution on the spacelike configurations and form a natural covariant representation of quantum states.

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