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Local mathematics and scaling field: effects on local physics and on cosmology

Mathematical Physics 2022-04-25 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

The origin of this paper starts with the observation by Yang Mills that what state represents a proton in isospin space at one location does not determine what state represents a proton in isospin space at another location. This is accounted for by the presence of a unitary gauge transformation operator, U(y,x)U(y,x), between vector spaces at different locations. This operator defines the notion of same states for vector spaces at different locations. If ψ\psi is a state in a vector space at xx then U(y,x)ψU(y,x)\psi is the same state in the vector space at yy. Vector spaces include scalar fields in their axiomatic description. These appear as norms, closure under vector scalar multiplication, etc. This leads to a conflict: local vector spaces and global scalar fields. Here this conflict is removed by replacing global scalar fields with local scalar fields. These are represented by Sˉx\bar{S}_{x} where xx is any location in Euclidean space or space time. Here SS represents the different type of numbers, (natural, integers, rational, real, and complex). The association of scalar fields with vector spaces and the Yang Mills observation raises the question, What corresponds to the Yang Mills observation for numbers? The answer is that two different concepts, number and number meaning or value, are conflated in the usual use of mathematics. These two concepts are distinct.

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@article{arxiv.2204.10369,
  title  = {Local mathematics and scaling field: effects on local physics and on cosmology},
  author = {Paul Benioff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.10369},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Paul Benioff heroically summoned the energy to complete this paper during the last week of his life. He committed his career to tackling fundamental issues on the relationship between mathematics and physics and achieved key breakthroughs including on the theoretical foundation for quantum computing. He was an avid nature lover, gardener and amazing husband, father, and friend. Ron Benioff