Spacetime-Free Approach to Quantum Theory and Effective Spacetime Structure

• Дата: 2017
• Автор: Raasakka, M.
• Формат: Стаття
• Мова: English
• Опубліковано: Інститут математики НАН України 2017
• Назва видання: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Онлайн доступ: http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/148571
• Назва журналу: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Цитувати: Spacetime-Free Approach to Quantum Theory and Effective Spacetime Structure / M. Raasakka // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2017. — Т. 13. — Бібліогр.: 91 назв. — англ.

Motivated by hints of the effective emergent nature of spacetime structure, we formulate a spacetime-free algebraic framework for quantum theory, in which no a priori background geometric structure is required. Such a framework is necessary in order to study the emergence of effective spacetime structure in a consistent manner, without assuming a background geometry from the outset. Instead, the background geometry is conjectured to arise as an effective structure of the algebraic and dynamical relations between observables that are imposed by the background statistics of the system. Namely, we suggest that quantum reference states on an extended observable algebra, the free algebra generated by the observables, may give rise to effective spacetime structures. Accordingly, perturbations of the reference state lead to perturbations of the induced effective spacetime geometry. We initiate the study of these perturbations, and their relation to gravitational phenomena.