Quantum theory in quaternionic Hilbert space: How Poincaré symmetry reduces the theory to the standard complex one
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General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Quaternionic functional analysis (46S05) Linear operators in (C^*)- or von Neumann algebras (47C15) Groups and semigroups of linear operators (47D03) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)
Abstract: We extend some results of group representation theory and von Neumann algebras to the quaternionic Hilbert space case, proving the double commutant theorem (whose quaternionic proof requires a different procedure) and extend to the quaternionic case a result concerning the classification of irreducible von Neumann algebras. Secondly, we consider elementary relativistic systems in Wigner's view defined as a locally-faithful irreducible strongly-continuous unitary representation of Poincar'e group in quaternionic Hilbert space. We prove that, if the squared-mass operator is non-negative, the system admits a natural, Poincar'e invariant and unique up to sign, complex structure commuting with the observables of the system leading to a physically equivalent reformulation in complex Hilbert space. Differently from the quaternionic formulation, all selfadjoint operators are now observables, Noether theorem holds and composite systems may be given in terms of tensor product. In the third part, we use a physically more accurate notion of relativistic elementary system: irreducibility regards the algebra of observables only, symmetries are automorphisms of the restricted lattice of elementary propositions and we adopt a notion of continuity referred to the states viewed as probability measures on the elementary propositions. We prove that again there exists a unique (up to sign) Poincar'e invariant complex structure making the theory complex. Relativistic elementary systems are naturally and better described in complex Hilbert spaces even if starting from a real or quaternionic Hilbert space formulations and this complex description is uniquely fixed by physics.
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