Quantization viewed as Galois extension

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Abstract: Quantization is studied from a viewpoint of field extension. If the dynamical fields and their action have a periodicity, the space of wave functions should be algebraically extended `a la Galois, so that it may be consistent with the periodicity. This was pointed out by Y. Nambu three decades ago. Having chosen quantum mechanics (one dimensional field theory), this paper shows that a different Galois extension gives a different quantization scheme. A new scheme of quantization appears when the invariance under Galois group is imposed as a physical state condition. Then, the normalization condition appears as a sum over the product of more than three wave functions, each of which is given for a different root adjoined by the field extension.












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