A new approach to quantising space-time. III: State vectors as functions on arrows

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2004.V8.N5.A2MaRDI QIDQ2493540zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 20 June 2006

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306064

zbMATH Keywords

quantisationfunctions on arrowsHilbert bundle schemeState vectors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Categories of spans/cospans, relations, or partial maps (18B10) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

Abstract: In two recent papers by the author, a new approach was suggested for quantising space-time, or space. This involved developing a procedure for quantising a system whose configuration space--or history-theory analogue--is the set of objects, $ObQ$, in a (small) category $Q$. The quantum states in this approach are cross-sections of a bundle $AleadstoK[A]$ of Hilbert spaces over $ObQ$. The Hilbert spaces $K[A]$, $AinObQ$, depend strongly on the object $A$, and have to be chosen so as to get an irreducible, faithful, representation of the basic `category quantisation monoid'. In the present paper, we develop a different approach in which the state vectors are complex-valued functions on the set of {em arrows} in $Q$. This throws a new light on the Hilbert bundle scheme: in particular, we recover the results of that approach in the, physically important, example when $Q$ is a small category of finite sets.

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