Relational quadrilateralland. II: The quantum theory

DOI10.1142/S0218271814500527zbMATH Open1291.81199arXiv1303.5645MaRDI QIDQ5167979FDOQ5167979

Authors: Edward Anderson, Sophie Kneller 

Publication date: 3 July 2014

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper provides the quantum treatment of the relational quadrilateral. The underlying reduced configuration spaces are $mathbb{CP}^2$ and the cone over this, C($mathbb{CP}^2$). We consider exact free and isotropic HO potential cases and perturbations about these. Moreover, our purely relational kinematical quantization is distinct from the usual one for $mathbb{CP}^2$, which turns out to carry absolutist connotations instead. Thus this paper is the first to note absolute-versus-relational motion distinctions at the kinematical rather than dynamical level, and also an example of value to the discussion of kinematical quantization along the lines of Isham 1984. This treatment of the relational quadrilateral is the first relational QM with very new mathematics for a finite QM model, and is far more typical of the general quantum relational $N$-a-gon than the previously-studied case of the relational triangle. We consider useful integrals as regards perturbation theory and the peaking interpretation of quantum cosmology. We subsequently consider problem of time applications of this: quantum Kuchav{r} beables, the Machian version of the semiclassical approach and the timeless naive Schrodinger interpretation. These go toward extending the combined Machian semiclassical-histories-timeless approach of [1] to the case of the quadrilateral, which will be treated in subsequent papers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5645

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zbMATH Keywords

complex projective spaceexactly solvable quantum modelsrelationalisminterdisciplinarity between mechanicsparticle physics and geometrical methodstoy models for problem of time in quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Stochastic quantization (81S20)

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