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On deformations of classical mechanics due to Planck-scale physics

Authors :
Chashchina, O. I.
Sen, A.
Silagadze, Z. K.
Source :
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 29 (2020), 2050070
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

Several quantum gravity and string theory thought experiments indicate that the Heisenberg uncertainty relations get modified at the Planck scale so that a minimal length do arises. This modification may imply a modification of the canonical commutation relations and hence quantum mechanics at the Planck scale. The corresponding modification of classical mechanics is usually considered by replacing modified quantum commutators by Poisson brackets suitably modified in such a way that they retain their main properties (antisymmetry, linearity, Leibniz rule and Jacobi identity). We indicate that there exists an alternative interesting possibility. Koopman-Von Neumann's Hilbert space formulation of classical mechanics allows, as Sudarshan remarked, to consider the classical mechanics as a hidden variable quantum system. Then the Planck scale modification of this quantum system naturally induces the corresponding modification of dynamics in the classical substrate. Interestingly, it seems this induced modification in fact destroys the classicality: classical position and momentum operators cease to be commuting and hidden variables do appear in their evolution equations.<br />Comment: 39 pages, ws-ijmpd, version to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 29 (2020), 2050070
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1902.09728
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271820500704