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

DOI10.1007/S11005-016-0909-8MaRDI QIDQ528529zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Murray Gerstenhaber

Publication date 12 May 2017

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

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

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)

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.

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