Quantized mechanics of affinely rigid bodies

DOI10.1002/MMA.4501zbMATH Open1393.22012arXiv1405.2688OpenAlexW2274108204MaRDI QIDQ3134010FDOQ3134010

Authors: V. Kovalchuk, Barbara Gołubowska, Agnieszka Martens, Ewa Eliza Rożko, J. J. Sławianowski 

Publication date: 8 February 2018

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we develope the main ideas of the quantized version of affinely-rigid (homogeneously deformable) motion. We base our consideration on the usual Schr"odinger formulation of quantum mechanics in the configuration manifold which is given, in our case, by the affine group or equivalently by the semi-direct product of the linear group $mGL(n,mathbbR)$ and the space of translations $mathbb{R}^n$, where $n$ equals the dimension of the "physical space". In particular, we discuss the problem of dynamical invariance of the kinetic energy under the action of the whole affine group, not only under the isometry subgroup. Technically, the treatment is based on the two-polar decomposition of the matrix of the internal configuration and on the Peter-Weyl theory of generalized Fourier series on Lie groups. One can hope that our results may be applied in quantum problems of nuclear dynamics or even in apparently exotic phenomena in vibrating neutron stars. And, of course, some more prosaic applications in macroscopic elasticity, structured continua, molecular dynamics, dynamics of inclusions, suspensions, and bubbles are also possible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2688

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zbMATH Keywords

homogeneously deformable bodyPeter-Weyl analysisSchrödinger quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Micromechanical theories (74A60) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

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