On quantum and parallel transport in a Hilbert bundle over spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/4/004MaRDI QIDQ4876655zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wolfgang Drechsler, Philip A. Tuckey

Publication date 10 November 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506039

zbMATH Keywords

parallel transportquantum transportstochastic quantum mechanics in curved spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: We study the Hilbert bundle description of stochastic quantum mechanics in curved spacetime developed by Prugovev{c}ki, which gives a powerful new framework for exploring the quantum mechanical propagation of states in curved spacetime. We concentrate on the quantum transport law in the bundle, specifically on the information which can be obtained from the flat space limit. We give a detailed proof that quantum transport coincides with parallel transport in the bundle in this limit, confirming statements of Prugovev{c}ki. We furthermore show that the quantum-geometric propagator in curved spacetime proposed by Prugovev{c}ki, yielding a Feynman path integral-like formula involving integrations over intermediate phase space variables, is Poincar'e gauge covariant (i.e.$!$ is gauge invariant except for transformations at the endpoints of the path) provided the integration measure is interpreted as a ``contact point measure in the soldered stochastic phase space bundle raised over curved spacetime.

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