Relativistic Quantum Mechanics from a Single Operator

p. 206-217

Abstract

Relativistic quantum mechanics can now be constructed minimally from a single creation operator with explicit energy, momentum and mass terms. The phase factor, amplitude, spinor structure and vacuum states are all automatic consequences of the initial definition. As separately-defined entities they are completely redundant. The operator can even be reduced to two terms (energy and momentum) if differentiation is defined in a discrete sense. This version of quantum mechanics is also a full quantum field theory, with an automatic incorporation of vacuum and second quantization. Renormalization is, in principle, eliminated by the intrinsic (vacuum) supersymmetry of the fermion and boson structures, while the fundamental interactions of particle physics are consequences of the mathematical structure alone, and do not require any additional 'physical' assumptions.

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Peter Rowlands, « Relativistic Quantum Mechanics from a Single Operator », CASYS, 22 | 2008, 206-217.

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Peter Rowlands, « Relativistic Quantum Mechanics from a Single Operator », CASYS [Online], 22 | 2008, Online since 19 September 2024, connection on 20 September 2024. URL : http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3474

Author

Peter Rowlands

Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Oliver Lodge Laboratory, Oxford St, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK

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