23–27 Jun 2025
Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli
Europe/Rome timezone

Modular Theory, Quantisation and Quantum Space-time

25 Jun 2025, 15:55
15m
1st floor, room 4 (University of Naples "Federico II")

1st floor, room 4

University of Naples "Federico II"

Corso Umberto I, 40 - 80138 Napoli (NA)

Speaker

Paolo Bertozzini

Description

A link between quantisation and (non-commutative) geometry is uncovered via Tomita-Takesaki modular theory for complexified ortho-symplectic spaces. We suggest (following arXiv:1007.4094v1) that, in a covariant quantum theory, non-commutative space-time can be a-posteriori recovered from relativistic states over algebras of partial observables. Speculative implications for cosmology will be mentioned.

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