Inequivalent quantizations and fundamentally perfect spaces

Imbo, Tom D. ; Sudarshan, E. C. G. (1988) Inequivalent quantizations and fundamentally perfect spaces Physical Review Letters, 60 (6). pp. 481-483. ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.481

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Abstract

We investigate the problem of inequivalent quantizations of a physical system with multiply connected configuration space X. For scalar quantum theory on X we show that state vectors must be single valued if and only if the first homology group H1(X) is trivial, or equivalently the fundamental group π1(X) is perfect. The θ structure of quantum gauge and gravitational theories is discussed in light of this result.

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