Contact Quantization: Quantum Mechanics = Parallel transport

DOI10.5817/AM2018-5-281zbMATH Open1463.81017arXiv1805.11731OpenAlexW2963449934WikidataQ128810957 ScholiaQ128810957MaRDI QIDQ4646992FDOQ4646992

Andrew K. Waldron, E. Latini, Gabriel Herczeg

Publication date: 3 January 2019

Published in: Archivum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantization together with quantum dynamics can be simultaneously formulated as the problem of finding an appropriate flat connection on a Hilbert bundle over a contact manifold. Contact geometry treats time, generalized positions and momenta as points on an underlying phase-spacetime and reduces classical mechanics to contact topology. Contact quantization describes quantum dynamics in terms of parallel transport for a flat connection; the ultimate goal being to also handle quantum systems in terms of contact topology. Our main result is a proof of local, formal gauge equivalence for a broad class of quantum dynamical systems-just as classical dynamics depends on choices of clocks, local quantum dynamics can be reduced to a problem of studying gauge transformations. We further show how to write quantum correlators in terms of parallel transport and in turn matrix elements for Hilbert bundle gauge transformations, and give the path integral formulation of these results. Finally, we show how to relate topology of the underlying contact manifold to boundary conditions for quantum wave functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11731

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationquantum mechanicsflat connectionscontact geometrycontact topologyclock ambiguity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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