Abstract
Following the construction of tensor product spaces of quaternion Hilbert modules in our previous paper, we define the analogue of a ray (in a complex quantum mechanics) and the corresponding projection operator, and through these the notion of a state and density operators. We find that there is a one-to-one correspondence between a state and an equivalence class of vectors from the tensor product space, which gives us another method to define the gauge transformations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 179-194 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Acta Applicandae Mathematicae |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1991 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- AMS subject classifications (1991): 13C99, 16K20, 16Dxx, 46M05, 81Rxx, 81P99
- Hilbert modules
- Quaternions
- algebraic modules
- division algebras
- ideals
- non-Abelian gauge fields
- tensor product