Cartan Calculus via Pauli Matrices
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
In this paper we will provide a new operatorial counterpart of the path-integral formalism of classical mechanics developed in recent years. We call it new because the Jacobi fields and forms will be realized via finite dimensional matrices. As a byproduct of this we will prove that all the operations of the Cartan calculus, such as the exterior derivative, the interior contraction with a vector field, the Lie derivative and so on, can be realized by means of suitable tensor products of Pauli and identity matrices.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0208190,
title = {Cartan Calculus via Pauli Matrices},
author = {D. Mauro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0208190},
year = {2009}
}
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30+1 pages, 1 figure