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DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.78.163MaRDI QIDQ4492477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alon E. Faraggi, Marco Matone

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9606063

zbMATH Keywords

inversion of the Schrödinger equationKlein-Gordon equationLegendre transformprepotentialprobability density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: By defining a prepotential function for the stationary Schr"odinger equation we derive an inversion formula for the space variable $x$ as a function of the wave-function $psi$. The resulting equation is a Legendre transform that relates $x$, the prepotential $calF$, and the probability density. We invert the Schr"odinger equation to a third-order differential equation for $calF$ and observe that the inversion procedure implies a $x$-$psi$ duality. This phenomenon is related to a modular symmetry due to the superposition of the solutions of the Schr"odinger equation. We propose that in quantum mechanics the space coordinate can be interpreted as a macroscopic variable of a statistical system with $hbar$ playing the role of a scaling parameter. We show that the scaling property of the space coordinate with respect to $au=partia{l}_{psi}^{2}calF$ is determined by the ``beta-function. We propose that the quantization of the inversion formula is a natural way to quantize geometry. The formalism is extended to higher dimensions and to the Klein-Gordon equation.

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