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Mathematical Physics

Title: Duality of quantum geometries

Authors: Jan Naudts
Abstract: Quantum connections are defined by parallel transport operators acting on a Hilbert space. They transport tangent operators along paths in parameter space. The metric tensor of a Riemannian manifold is replaced by an inner product of pairs of operator fields, similar to the inner product of the Kubo-Mori formalism of Linear Response Theory. The metric is used to define the dual of a quantum connection.The gradient of the parallel transport operators is the quantum vector potential. It defines the covariant derivative of operator fields. The covariant derivatives are used to quantify the holonomy of the quantum connection. It is shown that a quantum connection is holonomic if and only if its dual is holonomic. If the parallel transport operators are unitary then an alpha-family of quantum connections can be defined in a way similar to Amari's alpha family of connections in Information Geometry. The minus alpha connection is the dual of the alpha connection. In particular, the alpha equal zero connection is self-dual. An operator field can be combined with a path in parameter space to produce a path in operator space. A definition is given for such a path in operator space to be autoparallel. The path in parameter space is then a geodesic for the induced connection.
Comments: v2: Real-valued metric tensor and connection coefficients, added section on curvature, minor corrections v3: added sections on the quantum exponential family and on the commutative limit
Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Differential Geometry (math.DG)
Cite as: arXiv:2401.17908 [math-ph]
  (or arXiv:2401.17908v3 [math-ph] for this version)

Submission history

From: Jan Naudts [view email]
[v1] Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:12:58 GMT (19kb)
[v2] Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:26:12 GMT (20kb)
[v3] Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:05:03 GMT (22kb)

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