Geometry of non-Hausdorff spaces and its significance for physics

DOI10.1063/1.3574352MaRDI QIDQ5263579zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leszek Pysiak, Wiesław Sasin, Michal P. Heller

Publication date 17 July 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0491

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Measure algebras on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A10) Random linear operators (47B80) Lower separation axioms ((T_0)--(T_3), etc.) (54D10)

Abstract: Hausdorff relation, topologically identifying points in a given space, belongs to elementary tools of modern mathematics. We show that if subtle enough mathematical methods are used to analyze this relation, the conclusions may be far-reaching and illuminating. Examples of situations in which the Hausdorff relation is of the total type, i.e., when it identifies all points of the considered space, are the space of Penrose tilings and space-times of some cosmological models with strong curvature singularities. With every Hausdorff relation a groupoid can be associated, and a convolutive algebra defined on it allows one to analyze the space that otherwise would remain intractable. The regular representation of this algebra in a bundle of Hilbert spaces leads to a von Neumann algebra of random operators. In this way, a probabilistic description (in a generalized sense) naturally takes over when the concept of point looses its meaning. In this situation counterparts of the position and momentum operators can be defined, and they satisfy a commutation relation which, in the suitable limiting case, reproduces the Heisenberg indeterminacy relation. It should be emphasized that this is neither an additional assumption nor an effect of a quantization process, but simply the consequence of a purely geometric analysis.

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