Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-02-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
13 pages, LaTeX, no figures
Scientific paper
The relativistic free particle system in 1+1 dimensions is formulated as a ``bi-Hamiltonian system''. One Hamiltonian generates ordinary time translations, and another generates (essentially) boosts. Any observer, accelerated or not, sees evolution as the continuous unfolding of a canonical transformation which may be described using the two Hamiltonians. When the system is quantized both Hamiltonians become Hermitian operators in the standard positive definite inner product. Hence, each observer sees the evolution of the wave function as the continuous unfolding of a unitary transformation in the standard positive definite inner product. The result appears to be a consistent single particle interpretation of relativistic quantum mechanics. This interpretation has the feature that the wave function is observer dependent, and observables have non-local character, similar to what one might expect in quantum gravity.
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