Gerbes and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
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✦ hep-th
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heisenbergphaseprincipleuncertaintycechcertainclassicalcocycles
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We prove that a gerbe with a connection can be defined on classical phase space, taking the U(1)-valued phase of certain Feynman path integrals as Cech 2-cocycles. A quantisation condition on the corresponding 3-form field strength is proved to be equivalent to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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