Von Neumann algebra automorphisms and time-thermodynamics relation in generally covariant quantum theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/11/12/007zbMATH Open0821.46086arXivgr-qc/9406019OpenAlexW3098916322MaRDI QIDQ4763708FDOQ4763708

Authors: Alain Connes, Carlo Rovelli 

Publication date: 28 September 1995

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the cluster of problems raised by the relation between the notion of time, gravitational theory, quantum theory and thermodynamics; in particular, we address the problem of relating the "timelessness" of the hypothetical fundamental general covariant quantum field theory with the "evidence" of the flow of time. By using the algebraic formulation of quantum theory, we propose a unifying perspective on these problems, based on the hypothesis that in a generally covariant quantum theory the physical time-flow is not a universal property of the mechanical theory, but rather it is determined by the thermodynamical state of the system ("thermal time hypothesis"). We implement this hypothesis by using a key structural property of von Neumann algebras: the Tomita-Takesaki theorem, which allows to derive a time-flow, namely a one-parameter group of automorphisms of the observable algebra, from a generic thermal physical state. We study this time-flow, its classical limit, and we relate it to various characteristic theoretical facts, as the Unruh temperature and the Hawking radiation. We also point out the existence of a state-independent notion of "time", given by the canonical one-parameter subgroup of outer automorphisms provided by the Cocycle Radon-Nikodym theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9406019

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zbMATH Keywords

Hawking radiationUnruh temperaturecovariant quantum field theoryTomita-Takesaki theoremthermodynamical statecocycle Radon-Nikodym theoremone-parameter subgroup of outer automorphismsrelation between the notion of time, gravitational theory, quantum theory and thermodynamicsthermal time hypothesis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L40) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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