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arxiv: 0711.2777 · v2 · pith:BUOK7QVGnew · submitted 2007-11-18 · 🧮 math-ph · math.DG· math.MP

The Schroedinger operator as a generalized Laplacian

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keywords schroedingerbundleoperatorprincipalassociatedinertiallaplace-beltramiline
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The Schroedinger operators on the Newtonian space-time are defined in a way which make them independent on the class of inertial observers. In this picture the Schroedinger operators act not on functions on the space-time but on sections of certain one-dimensional complex vector bundle -- the Schroedinger line bundle. This line bundle has trivializations indexed by inertial observers and is associated with an U(1)-principal bundle with an analogous list of trivializations -- the Schroedinger principal bundle. For the Schroedinger principal bundle a natural differential calculus for `wave forms' is developed that leads to a natural generalization of the concept of Laplace-Beltrami operator associated with a pseudo-Riemannian metric. The free Schroedinger operator turns out to be the Laplace-Beltrami operator associated with a naturally distinguished invariant pseudo-Riemannian metric on the Schroedinger principal bundle. The presented framework is proven to be strictly related to the frame-independent formulation of analytical Newtonian mechanics and Hamilton-Jacobi equations, that makes a bridge between the classical and quantum theory.

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