Algebraic quantization of causal sets.

DOI10.1023/A:1003682602487zbMATH Open1090.81505arXivgr-qc/9906103OpenAlexW3092314141MaRDI QIDQ1590867FDOQ1590867

Authors: Ioannis Raptis 

Publication date: 1 January 2001

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A scheme for an algebraic quantization of the causal sets of Sorkin et al. is presented. The suggested scenario is along the lines of a similar algebraization and quantum interpretation of finitary topological spaces due to Zapatrin and this author. To be able to apply the latter procedure to causal sets Sorkin's `semantic switch' from `partially ordered sets as finitary topological spaces' to `partially ordered sets as locally finite causal sets' is employed. The result is the definition of `quantum causal sets'. Such a procedure and its resulting definition is physically justified by a property of quantum causal sets that meets Finkelstein's requirement from `quantum causality' to be an immediate, as well as an algebraically represented, relation between events for discrete locality's sake. The quantum causal sets introduced here are shown to have this property by direct use of a result from the algebraization of finitary topological spaces due to Breslav, Parfionov and Zapatrin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9906103

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99)

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