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Physics of Finance

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-20 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Physics and Society Pricing of Securities

Abstract

We give a brief introduction to the Gauge Theory of Arbitrage. Treating a calculation of Net Present Values (NPV) and currencies exchanges as a parallel transport in some fibre bundle, we give geometrical interpretation of the interest rate, exchange rates and prices of securities as a proper connection components. This allows us to map the theory of capital market onto the theory of quantized gauge field interacted with a money flow field. The gauge transformations of the matter field correspond to a dilatation of security units which effect is eliminated by a gauge transformation of the connection. The curvature tensor for the connection consists of the excess returns to the risk-free interest rate for the local arbitrage operation. Free quantum gauge theory is equivalent to the assumption about the log-normal walks of assets prices. In general case the consideration maps the capital market onto lattice QED.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9710148,
  title  = {Physics of Finance},
  author = {Kirill Ilinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9710148},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, LaTeX, to appear in Proceeding of Budapest's conference on Econophysics (July 1997)

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