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Apparent Geometry from the Quantum Mechanics of $Sp(8,\mathbb{C})$

General Physics 2019-02-28 v1

Abstract

Restricting attention to kinematics, we develop the CC^\ast-algebraic quantum mechanics of Sp(8,C)Sp(8,\mathbb{C}). The non-compact group does double duty: it furnishes the quantum Hilbert space through induced representations, and it spawns the quantum CC^\ast-algebra through a crossed product construction. The crossed product contains operators associated with the lie algebra of Sp(8,C)Sp(8,\mathbb{C}) whose spectra can be interpreted as a dimC=20\mathrm{dim}_{\mathbb{C}}=20 non-commutative phase space with a dynamical, commutative dimC=10\mathrm{dim}_{\mathbb{C}}=10 configuration subspace and an internal U(4,C)U(4,\mathbb{C}) symmetry. The construction realizes quantization without first passing through the classical domain, and it exhibits apparent geometry.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1902.10531,
  title  = {Apparent Geometry from the Quantum Mechanics of $Sp(8,\mathbb{C})$},
  author = {J. LaChapelle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.10531},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

This is an abridged version of arXiv:1505.08102 and arXiv:1506.02985 with the role of functional Mellin transforms being played here by crossed products