Schwinger's picture of quantum mechanics: 2-groupoids and symmetries

DOI10.3934/JGM.2021008zbMATH Open1484.81053arXiv2104.13880OpenAlexW3163670560MaRDI QIDQ2065147FDOQ2065147

Authors: Florio M. Ciaglia, Fabio Di Cosmo, A. Ibort, Luca Schiavone, Giuseppe Marmo 

Publication date: 7 January 2022

Published in: Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Starting from the groupoid approach to Schwinger's picture of Quantum Mechanics, a proposal for the description of symmetries in this framework is advanced.It is shown that, given a groupoid $GightrightarrowsOmega$ associated with a (quantum) system, there are two possible descriptions of its symmetries, one "microscopic", the other one "global".The microscopic point of view leads to the introduction of an additional layer over the grupoid $G$, giving rise to a suitable algebraic structure of 2-groupoid.On the other hand, taking advantage of the notion of group of bisections of a given groupoid, the global perspective allows to construct a group of symmetries out of a 2-groupoid.The latter notion allows to introduce an analog of the Wigner's theorem for quantum symmetries in the groupoid approach to Quantum Mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13880

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesbisectionsgroupoid and group automorphismsgroupoids and 2-groupoidsSchwinger's picture of quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05)

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