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Quantum Harmonic Oscillator as a Zariski Geometry

Logic 2013-01-28 v3

Abstract

We carry out a model-theoretic analysis of the Heisenberg algebra. To this end, a geometric structure is associated to the Heisenberg algebra and is shown to be a Zariski geometry. Furthermore, this Zariski geometry is shown to be non-classical, in the sense that it is not interpretable in an algebraically closed field. On assuming self-adjointness of the position and momentum operators, one obtains a discrete substructure of which the original Zariski geometry is seen as the complexification.

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@article{arxiv.0909.4415,
  title  = {Quantum Harmonic Oscillator as a Zariski Geometry},
  author = {Vinesh Solanki and Dmitry Sustretov and Boris Zilber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.4415},
  year   = {2013}
}

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some typos corrected

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