Discrete time from quantum physics.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90207-0MaRDI QIDQ1967537zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Chandar, A. P. Balachandran

Publication date 6 March 2000

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9404193

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99)

Abstract: 't Hooft has recently developed a discretisation of (2+1) gravity which has a multiple-valued Hamiltonian and which therefore admits quantum time evolution only in discrete steps. In this paper, we describe several models in the continuum with single-valued equations of motion in classical physics, but with multiple-valued Hamiltonians. Their time displacements in quantum theory are therefore obliged to be discrete. Classical models on smooth spatial manifolds are also constructed with the property that spatial displacements can be implemented only in discrete steps in quantum theory. All these models show that quantization can profoundly affect classical topology.

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