Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-06-29
Europhys.Lett. 40 (1997) 257-261
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
6 pages, LaTeX
Scientific paper
10.1209/epl/i1997-00457-7
We study functional analytic aspects of two types of correction terms to the Heisenberg algebra. One type is known to induce a finite lower bound $\Delta x_0$ to the resolution of distances, a short distance cutoff which is motivated from string theory and quantum gravity. It implies the existence of families of self-adjoint extensions of the position operators with lattices of eigenvalues. These lattices, which form representations of certain unitary groups cannot be resolved on the given geometry. This leads us to conjecture that, within this framework, degrees of freedom that correspond to structure smaller than the resolvable (Planck) scale turn into internal degrees of freedom with these unitary groups as symmetries. The second type of correction terms is related to the previous essentially by "Wick rotation", and its basics are here considered for the first time. In particular, we investigate unitarily inequivalent representations.
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