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arxiv: 1805.05943 · v2 · pith:Q5MIPVCSnew · submitted 2018-05-15 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th· math-ph· math.MP

Polymer Quantum Mechanics as a Deformation Quantization

classification 🌀 gr-qc hep-thmath-phmath.MP
keywords polymerrepresentationquantumdeformationfunctionlimitmechanicsodinger
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We analyze the polymer representation of quantum mechanics within the deformation quantization formalism. In particular, we construct the Wigner function and the star-product for the polymer representation as a distributional limit of the Schr\"odinger representation for the Weyl algebra in a Gaussian weighted measure, and we observe that the quasi-probability distribution limit of this Schr\"odinger representation agrees with the Wigner function for Loop Quantum Cosmology. Further, the introduced polymer star-product fulfills Bohr's correspondence principle even though not all the operators are well defined in the polymer representation. Finally, within our framework, we also derive a generalized uncertainty principle which is consistent to the ones usually obtained in theories assuming a fundamental minimal length in their formulation.

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