Geodesic multiplication and quantum kinematics in a Newtonian spacetime
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We consider a quantum test particle in the background of a Newtonian gravitational field in the framework of Cartan's formulation of nonrelativistic spacetimes. We have proposed a novel quantization of a point particle which amounts to introducing its position operators as multiplication with the corresponding Riemann normal coordinates and momentum operators as infinitesimal right translation operators determined by geodesic multiplication of points of the spacetime. We present detailed calculations for the simplest model of a two-dimensional Newtonian spacetime.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9906093,
title = {Geodesic multiplication and quantum kinematics in a Newtonian spacetime},
author = {Piret Kuusk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9906093},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, LaTex, submitted to "Webs and Quasigroups 1998-1999" (Tver State University, Tver)