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

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2003.V7.N2.A5MaRDI QIDQ819909zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors N. E. Zubov

Publication date 31 March 2006

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

arrow-field quantum theorycategorymonoid of arrow fieldsQuantising space-timeset of objects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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