A general perspective on time observables

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2014.05.001MaRDI QIDQ407332zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bryan W. Roberts

Publication date 29 August 2014

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4961

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic geometryquantum theoryquantum clockstime observables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Abstract: I propose a general geometric framework in which to discuss the existence of time observables. This frameworks allows one to describe a local sense in which time observables always exist, and a global sense in which they can sometimes exist subject to a restriction on the vector fields that they generate. Pauli's prohibition on quantum time observables is derived as a corollary to this result. I will then discuss how time observables can be regained in modest extensions of quantum theory beyond its standard formulation.

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