Isolated objects and their evolution: a derivation of the Propagator's path integral for spinless elementary particles

DOI10.1007/S10701-021-00535-9zbMATH Open1485.81047arXiv2103.14730OpenAlexW4205753252MaRDI QIDQ2076337FDOQ2076337

Authors: Domenico Napoletani, D. C. Struppa 

Publication date: 16 February 2022

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

Abstract: We introduce a notion of isolated units, elementary particles or more general physical phenomena that do not significantly affect their surrounding environment, and we build a primitive ontology to describe their evolution and interaction. We further introduce a notion of indistinguishability of distinct spacetime paths of a unit, for which the evolution of the state variables of the unit is the same, and a generalization of the equivalence principle based on indistinguishability. Under a time invertibility condition on the whole set of indistinguishable paths of a unit, we show that the quantization of motion of spinless elementary particles in a general potential field can be derived in this framework, in the limiting case of weak fields and low velocities. Extrapolating this approach to include weak relativistic effects, we explore possible experimental consequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14730

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zbMATH Keywords

foundations of quantum mechanicsequivalence principlepath integral formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Stochastic quantization (81S20)

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