On the Hermitian projective line as a home for the geometry of Quantum Theory

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Authors Wolfgang Bertram

Publication date 28 April 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0561

zbMATH Keywords

quantum theorygeneralized projective geometriesassociative geometryJordan algebras Jordan -triple systemsJordan-pairs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics (51P05) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Associated geometries of Jordan algebras (17C37)

Abstract: In the paper "Is there a Jordan geometry underlying quantum physics?" (Int. J. Theor. Phys., to appear; arXiv:0801.3069 [math-ph]), generalized projective geometries have been proposed as a framework for a geometric formulation of Quantum Theory. In the present note, we refine this proposition by discussing further structural features of Quantum Theory: the link with associative involutive algebras, and with Jordan-Lie and Lie-Jordan algebas. The associated geometries are (Hermitian) projective lines over an associative algebra; their axiomatic definition and theory will be given in subsequent work with M. Kinyon.

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