C J Isham et al 1990 Class. Quantum Grav. 7 1053 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/7/6/013
C J Isham, Y Kubyshin and P Renteln
Show affiliationsOne approach to building a genuine theory of quantum topology would be to construct a quantum theory on the set M(X) of all metrics on a set X. The authors move towards this goal by showing that, for a finite set X, almost all such metrics can be obtained by embedding X into a vector space V and then varying the norm on V. This leads to the subject of 'quantum norm theory' and they give an explicit Fock space representation of such a system. They discuss a model Hamiltonian which can produce a change in metric topology by changing the effective number of points in X.
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