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We introduce a new spectral sequence for the study of $\mathcal{K}$-manifolds which arises by restricting the spectral sequence of a Riemannian foliation to forms invariant under the flows of $\{\xi_1,...,\xi_s\}$. We use this sequence to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Paweł Raźny

We study a deformation of infinitesimal diffeomorphisms of a smooth manifold. The deformation is based on a general twist. This leads to a differential geometry on a noncommutative algebra of functions whose product is a star-product. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Aschieri , Marija Dimitrijevic , Frank Meyer , Julius Wess

Recently we showed that the postulated diffeomorphic equivalence of states implies quantum mechanics. This approach takes the canonical variables to be dependent by the relation p=\partial_q S_0 and exploits a basic GL(2,C)-symmetry which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Alon E. Faraggi , Marco Matone

Quantum mechanics is among the most important and successful mathematical model for describing our physical reality. The traditional formulation of quantum mechanics is linear and algebraic. In contrast classical mechanics is a geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Hoshang Heydari

A phenomenology for the deep spatial geometry of loop quantum gravity is introduced. In the context of a simple model, an atom of space, it is shown how purely combinatorial structures can affect observations. The angle operator is used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Seth A. Major

The aim of this work is to complete our program on the quantization of connections on arbitrary principal U(1)-bundles over globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. In particular, we show that one can assign via a covariant functor to any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Marco Benini , Claudio Dappiaggi , Thomas-Paul Hack , Alexander Schenkel

In quantum geometry, we consider a set of loops, a compact orientable surface and a solid compact spatial region, all inside $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^3 \equiv \mathbb{R}^4$, which forms a triple. We want to define an ambient isotopic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Adrian P. C. Lim

The manifold of pure quantum states is a complex projective space endowed with the unitary-invariant geometry of Fubini and Study. According to the principles of geometric quantum mechanics, the detailed physical characteristics of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

4-manifolds have special topological properties which can be used to get a different view on quantum mechanics. One important property (connected with exotic smoothness) is the natural appearance of 3-manifold wild embeddings (Alexanders…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga

The physical interpretation of the main notions of the quantum group theory (coproduct, representations and corepresentations, action and coaction) is discussed using the simplest examples of $q$-deformed objects (quantum group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 P. P. Kulish

We explain why, in a configuration space that is multiply connected, i.e., whose fundamental group is nontrivial, there are several quantum theories, corresponding to different choices of topological factors. We do this in the context of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Detlef Duerr , Sheldon Goldstein , James Taylor , Roderich Tumulka , Nino Zanghi

We discuss various infinite-dimensional configuration spaces that carry measures quasiinvariant under compactly-supported diffeomorphisms of a manifold M corresponding to a physical space. Such measures allow the construction of unitary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerald A. Goldin , Ugo Moschella , Takao Sakuraba

A deformation of the algebra of diffeomorphisms is constructed for canonically deformed spaces with constant deformation parameter theta. The algebraic relations remain the same, whereas the comultiplication rule (Leibniz rule) is different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Aschieri , Christian Blohmann , Marija Dimitrijevic , Frank Meyer , Peter Schupp , Julius Wess

We expose a K-theoretic approach to study group C*-algebras and C*-algebraic compact quantum groups: 1. The conception of multidimensional geometric quantization and the index of group C*-algebras; 2. the entire homology of noncommutative…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Do Ngoc Diep

We investigate the action of diffeomorphisms in the context of Hamiltonian Gravity. By considering how the diffeomorphism-invariant Hilbert space of Loop Quantum Gravity should be constructed, we formulate a physical principle by demanding,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim Koslowski

We study the class of norms on the space of smooth functions on a closed symplectic manifold, which are invariant under the action of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. Our main result shows that any such norm that is continuous with…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-05 Lev Buhovsky , Yaron Ostrover

Topological quivers generalize the notion of directed graphs in which the sets of vertices and edges are locally compact (second countable) Hausdorff spaces. Associated to a topological quiver $Q$ is a $C^*$-correspondence, and in turn, a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Shawn J. McCann

Symmetries in quantum mechanics are realized by the projective representations of the Lie group as physical states are defined only up to a phase. A cornerstone theorem shows that these representations are equivalent to the unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 S. G. Low , P. D. Jarvis , R. Campoamor-Stursberg

The article is devoted to the investigation of groups of diffeomorphisms and loops of manifolds over ultra-metric fields of zero and positive characteristics. Different types of topologies are considered on groups of loops and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-18 S. V. Ludkovsky

We investigate the construction of coherent states for quantum theories of connections based on graphs embedded in a spatial manifold, as in loop quantum gravity. We discuss the many subtleties of the construction, mainly related to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniele Oriti , Roberto Pereira , Lorenzo Sindoni