From path integrals to dynamical algebras: a macroscopic view of quantum physics

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00345-5MaRDI QIDQ2072041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Detlev Buchholz, Klaus Fredenhagen

Publication date 31 January 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.04250

zbMATH Keywords

arrow of timeoperator algebrapath integralquantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Canonical quantization (81S08) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: The essence of the path integral method in quantum physics can be expressed in terms of two relations between unitary propagators, describing perturbations of the underlying system. They inherit the causal structure of the theory and its invariance properties under variations of the action. These relations determine a dynamical algebra of bounded operators which encodes all properties of the corresponding quantum theory. This novel approach is applied to non-relativistic particles, where quantum mechanics emerges from it. The method works also in interacting quantum field theories and sheds new light on the foundations of quantum physics.

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