Quanta Without Quantization

DOI10.1142/S0217732397002223MaRDI QIDQ4212054zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James T. Wheeler

Publication date 25 October 1998

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705235

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsstring theorytangent tower structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: The dimensional properties of fields in classical general relativity lead to a tangent tower structure which gives rise directly to quantum mechanical and quantum field theory structures without quantization. We derive all of the fundamental elements of quantum mechanics from the tangent tower structure, including fundamental commutation relations, a Hilbert space of pure and mixed states, measurable expectation values, Schroedinger time evolution, collapse of a state and the probability interpretation. The most central elements of string theory also follow, including an operator valued mode expansion like that in string theory as well as the Virasoro algebra with central charges.

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