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arxiv: quant-ph/0601209 · v1 · submitted 2006-01-31 · 🪐 quant-ph · hep-th

Quantization as a dimensional reduction phenomenon

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keywords dimensionalquantizationformreductionsupermanifoldtimeachievedappearance
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Classical mechanics, in the operatorial formulation of Koopman and von Neumann, can be written also in a functional form. In this form two Grassmann partners of time make their natural appearance extending in this manner time to a three dimensional supermanifold. Quantization is then achieved by a process of dimensional reduction of this supermanifold. We prove that this procedure is equivalent to the well-known method of geometric quantization.

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