A new approach to quantising space-time. I: Quantising on a general category

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2003.V7.N2.A5zbMATH Open1093.81058arXivgr-qc/0303060MaRDI QIDQ819909FDOQ819909

N. E. Zubov

Publication date: 31 March 2006

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A new approach is suggested to the problem of quantising causal sets, or topologies, or other such models for space-time (or space). The starting point is the observation that entities of this type can be regarded as objects in a category whose arrows are structure-preserving maps. This motivates investigating the general problem of quantising a system whose `configuration space' (or history-theory analogue) can be regarded as the set of objects in a category. In this first of a series of papers, we study this question in general and develop a scheme based on constructing an analogue of the group that is used in the canonical quantisation of a system whose configuration space is a manifold $QsimeqG/H$ where G and H are Lie groups. In particular, we choose as the analogue of G the monoid of `arrow fields' on the category. Physically, this means that an arrow between two objects in the category is viewed as some sort of analogue of momentum. After finding the `category quantisation monoid', we show how suitable representations can be constructed using a bundle of Hilbert spaces over the set of objects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0303060

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zbMATH Keywords

categoryarrow-field quantum theorymonoid of arrow fieldsQuantising space-timeset of objects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Categories of spans/cospans, relations, or partial maps (18B10) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

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