An outline of covariant quantum mechanics
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Recent Developments in Gravitational Phzsics |
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| Web | http://www.amazon.com/Recent-Developments-Gravitational-Physics-Proceedings/dp/0750309431 |
| Field | General mathematics |
| Keywords | General covariance; classical mechanics; quantum mechanics |
| Description | We outline a generally covariant formulation of quantum mechanics for a scalar particle in a curved spacetime, which is fibred over absolute time and is equipped with given spacelike metric, gravitational field and electromagnetic field. We claim that the quantum operators can be achieved by the only requirement of general covariance. In particular, in the flat case, our quantum operators operators coincide with the standard ones. |
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