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Polymer Quantum Mechanics as a Deformation Quantization

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-02-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We analyze the polymer representation of quantum mechanics within the deformation quantization formalism. In particular, we construct the Wigner function and the star-product for the polymer representation as a distributional limit of the Schr\"odinger representation for the Weyl algebra in a Gaussian weighted measure, and we observe that the quasi-probability distribution limit of this Schr\"odinger representation agrees with the Wigner function for Loop Quantum Cosmology. Further, the introduced polymer star-product fulfills Bohr's correspondence principle even though not all the operators are well defined in the polymer representation. Finally, within our framework, we also derive a generalized uncertainty principle which is consistent to the ones usually obtained in theories assuming a fundamental minimal length in their formulation.

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@article{arxiv.1805.05943,
  title  = {Polymer Quantum Mechanics as a Deformation Quantization},
  author = {Jasel Berra-Montiel and Alberto Molgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.05943},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages, no figures

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