A New Approach to Quantising Space-Time: III. State Vestors of Functions on Arrows
Isham, C.J.
Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., Tome 8 (2004) no. 1, p. 797-811 / Harvested from Project Euclid
In [1], a new approach was suggested for quantising space-time, or space. This involved developing a procedure for quantising a system whose configuration space--or history-theory analogue--is the set of objects, Ob(Q), in a (small) category Q. The quantum states in this approach are cross-sections of a bundle A is in K[A] of Hilbert spaces over Ob(Q). The Hilbert spaces K[A], A are in Ob(Q)], depend strongly on the object A, and have to be chosen so as to get an irreducible, faithful, representation of the basic `category quantisation monoid'. In the present paper, we develop a different approach in which the state vectors are complex-valued functions on the set of arrows in Q. This throws a new light on the Hilbert bundle scheme: in particular, we recover the results of that approach in the, physically important, example when Q is a small category of finite sets.
Publié le : 2004-10-14
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     title = {A New Approach to Quantising Space-Time: III. State Vestors of
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     journal = {Adv. Theor. Math. Phys.},
     volume = {8},
     number = {1},
     year = {2004},
     pages = { 797-811},
     language = {en},
     url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1117751920}
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Isham, C.J. A New Approach to Quantising Space-Time: III. State Vestors of
Functions on Arrows. Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., Tome 8 (2004) no. 1, pp.  797-811. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1117751920/