Topology of spacetime and quantization of particle dynamics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v7
Abstract
We compare classical and quantum dynamics of a particle in the de Sitter spacetimes with different topologies to show that the result of quantization strongly depends on global properties of a classical system. We present essentially self-adjoint representations of the algebra of observables for each system. Quantization based on global properties of a classical system accounts properly its symmetries.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0105005,
title = {Topology of spacetime and quantization of particle dynamics},
author = {Wlodzimierz Piechocki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0105005},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
17 pages, no figures, revtex, improved version