Published March 17, 2006
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Journal article
Local currents for a deformed algebra of quantum mechanics with a fundamental length scale
Creators
- 1. Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Rutgers University, 118 Frelinghuysen Road, SERC 239, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (United States)
- 2. Department of Physics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS (United Kingdom)
Description
We explore some explicit representations of a certain stable deformed algebra of quantum mechanics, considered by R Vilela Mendes, having a fundamental length scale. The relation of the irreducible representations of the deformed algebra to those of the (limiting) Heisenberg algebra is discussed, and we construct the generalized harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian in this framework. To obtain local currents for this algebra, we extend the usual nonrelativistic local current algebra of vector fields and the corresponding group of diffeomorphisms, modelling the quantum configuration space as a commutative spatial manifold with one additional dimension
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/39/2757/a6_11_012.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General (ISSN 1361-6447) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/39/2757/a6_11_012.pdf;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0305-4470/39/11/012;
- PII
- S0305-4470(06)10268-1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General
- Journal Volume
- 39
- Journal Issue
- 11
- Journal Page Range
- p. 2757-2772
- ISSN
- 0305-4470
- CODEN
- JPHAC5
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37051334
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGEBRA; CURRENT ALGEBRA; HAMILTONIANS; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; LENGTH; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; VECTOR FIELDS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIMENSIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SPACE