Path algebras, wave-particle duality, and quantization of phase space

DOI10.1007/S11005-016-0909-8zbMATH Open1361.16018arXiv1505.05859OpenAlexW2230452008MaRDI QIDQ528529FDOQ528529

Authors: Murray Gerstenhaber 

Publication date: 12 May 2017

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Semigroup algebras admit certain `coherent' deformations which, in the special case of a path algebra, may associate a periodic function to an evolving path; for a particle moving freely on a straight line after an initial impulse, the wave length is that hypothesized by de Broglie's wave-particle duality. This theory leads to a model of "physical" phase space of which mathematical phase space, the cotangent bundle of configuration space, is a projection. This space is singular, quantized at the Planck level, its structure implies the existence of spin, and the spread of a packet can be described as a random walk. The wavelength associated to a particle moving in this space need not be constant and its phase can change discontinuously.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05859

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomologyhomotopydeformationsemigroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Co)homology of rings and associative algebras (e.g., Hochschild, cyclic, dihedral, etc.) (16E40) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Deformations of associative rings (16S80)

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