Physics over a finite field and Wick rotation
Abstract
The paper develops an earlier proposition that the physical universe is a finite system co-ordinatised by a very large finite field which looks like the field of complex numbers to an observer. We construct a place (homomorphism) from a pseudo-finite field onto the compactified field of complex numbers in such a way that certain multiplicative subgroups and correspond to the polar coordinate system and of Thus and provide co-ordinates for physical universe. We show that the passage from the scale of units in to the scale of units of corresponds to a multiplication (on the logarithmic scale) by a very large integer equal approximately to This provides an explanation to the phenomenon of Wick rotation. In the same model we explain the phenomenon of phase transition in a large finite system
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@article{arxiv.2306.15698,
title = {Physics over a finite field and Wick rotation},
author = {Boris Zilber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.15698},
year = {2023}
}