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arXiv:0707.4568 (hep-th)
[Submitted on 31 Jul 2007]

Title:Emergent Quantum Mechanics and Emergent Symmetries

Authors:Gerard 't Hooft
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Abstract: Quantum mechanics is 'emergent' if a statistical treatment of large scale phenomena in a locally deterministic theory requires the use of quantum operators. These quantum operators may allow for symmetry transformations that are not present in the underlying deterministic system. Such theories allow for a natural explanation of the existence of gauge equivalence classes (gauge orbits), including the equivalence classes generated by general coordinate transformations. Thus, local gauge symmetries and general coordinate invariance could be emergent symmetries, and this might lead to new alleys towards understanding the flatness problem of the Universe.
Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure. Presented at PASCOS 13, Imperial College, London, July 6, 2007
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Report number: ITP-UU-07/39, SPIN-07/27
Cite as: arXiv:0707.4568 [hep-th]
  (or arXiv:0707.4568v1 [hep-th] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0707.4568
Journal reference: AIPConf.Proc.957:154-163,2007
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2823751

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