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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.

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@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}
}

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17 pages, no figures, revtex, improved version