Time Discretization From Noncommutativity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2021.136372MaRDI QIDQ6358437arXivFDO

Authors Fedele Lizzi, Patrizia Vitale

Publication date 17 January 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2021.136372

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX) Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

arXiv classification

hep-thmath-phmath.MPmath.QA

Abstract: We show that a particular noncommutative geometry, sometimes called angular or $ho$-Minkowski, requires that the spectrum of time be discrete. In this noncommutative space the time variable is not commuting with the angular variable in cylindrical coordinates. The possible values that the variable can take go from minus infinity to plus infinity, equally spaced by the scale of noncommmutativity. Possible self-adjoint extensions of the "time operator" are discussed. They give that a measurement of time can be any real value, but time intervals are still quantized.

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