Published September 21, 1985 | Version v1
Journal article

A fibre bundle formulation of quantum geometry

  • 1. Toronto Univ., Ontario (Canada). Dept. of Mathematics

Description

Quantum geometries whose points are stochastic and serve as seats for quantum space-time excitons are formulated as fibre bundles over base spaces of mean values with a Minkowski or general relativistic structure. The fibres contain the proper wave functions of all exciton states in a given model. The notion of covariance and propagation in quantum space-times constituting such fibre bundles is investigated. Maxwell and Yang-Mills gauge degrees of freedom are introduced by appropriately enlarging the structure group, which in all cases contains phase-space representations of the Poincare group corresponding to the exciton wave function sample space specific to a given model. It is shown that these formulations give rise in a natural manner to certain realizations of the relativistic canonical commutation relations in terms of covariant derivatives involving internal as well as external degrees of freedom of space-time excitons

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuovo Cim., A
Journal Volume
89
Journal Issue
2
Series
Nuovo Cim., A.
Journal Page Range
105-125
ISSN
0369-3546
CODEN
NCIAA

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
Italy
INIS RN
17052405
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COMMUTATION RELATIONS; EXCITONS; GEOMETRY; PHASE SPACE; POINCARE GROUPS; SPACE-TIME; WAVE FUNCTIONS
Descriptors DEC
FUNCTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; QUASI PARTICLES; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS