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The Schrödinger operator as a generalized Laplacian

Katarzyna Grabowska1, Janusz Grabowski2 and Paweł Urbański1

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The Schrödinger operators on the Newtonian spacetime are defined in a way which make them independent of the class of inertial observers. In this picture the Schrödinger operators act not on functions on the spacetime but on sections of a certain one-dimensional complex vector bundle—the Schrödinger line bundle. This line bundle has trivializations indexed by inertial observers and is associated with an U(1)-principal bundle with an analogous list of trivializations—the Schrödinger principal bundle. If an inertial frame is fixed, the Schrödinger bundle can be identified with the trivial bundle over spacetime, but as there is no canonical trivialization (inertial frame), these sections interpreted as 'wavefunctions' cannot be viewed as actual functions on the spacetime. In this approach, the change of an observer results not only in the change of actual coordinates in the spacetime but also in a change of the phase of wavefunctions. For the Schrödinger principal bundle, a natural differential calculus for 'wave forms' is developed that leads to a natural generalization of the concept of the Laplace–Beltrami operator associated with a pseudo-Riemannian metric. The free Schrödinger operator turns out to be the Laplace–Beltrami operator associated with a naturally distinguished invariant pseudo-Riemannian metric on the Schrödinger principal bundle. The presented framework does not involve any ad hoc or axiomatically introduced geometrical structures. It is based on the traditional understanding of the Schrödinger operator in a given reference frame—which is supported by producing right physics predictions—and it is proven to be strictly related to the frame-independent formulation of analytical Newtonian mechanics and Hamilton–Jacobi equations that makes a bridge between the classical and quantum theory.


PACS

02.30.Tb Operator theory

02.40.Ky Riemannian geometries

MSC

55R25 Sphere bundles and vector bundles

35J10 Schrödinger operator (See also 35Pxx)

70H20 Hamilton-Jacobi equations

58B20 Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures (See also 53C20, 53C60)

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Dates

Issue 14 (11 April 2008)

Received 18 November 2007

Published 26 March 2008



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