Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2008-05-19
Physics
Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
10.1007/s11005-008-0280-5
The Lie-Rinehart algebra of a manifold M, defined by the Lie structure of the vector fields, their action and their module structure on the infinitely differentiable functions on M, is a common, diffeomorphism invariant, algebra for both classical and quantum mechanics. Its (noncommutative) Poisson universal enveloping algebra contains a central variable Z which relates the commutators to the Lie products; classical and quantum mechanics are its only factorial realizations, corresponding to the indentification of Z with i times the Planck constant. In this form, canonical quantization appears therefore as a consequence of such a general geometrical structure. The regular factorial Hilbert space representations are, for nonzero values of Z, unitarily equivalent, apart from multiplicity, to one of the irreducible quantum representations, which are locally Schroedinger and in one to one correspondence with the unitary irreducible representations of the fundamental group of M. For Z = 0, if Diff(M) is unitarily implemented, they are unitarily equivalent, up to multiplicity, to the representation defined by classical mechanics on M.
Morchio Giovanni
Strocchi Franco
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