Majorana Tower and Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics down to Planck Scales

TL;DR

This paper proposes a deterministic reformulation of quantum mechanics using cellular automata interpreted through Majorana's infinite-components equation, linking quantum structures to spacetime and prime number distributions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interpretation of quantum mechanics as cellular automata derived from Majorana's equation, connecting quantum structures with spacetime and prime number theory.

Findings

Cellular automata can be physically interpreted via Majorana's equation.

Quantum structures relate to spacetime fabric at Planck scales.

Mathematical approaches connect quantum mechanics with prime number distribution.

Abstract

A deterministic reformulation of quantum mechanics can bypass the usual philosophical interpretations of probability and stochasticity that are found in the literature. This can be obtained with the ontological formulation of quantum mechanics, obtained by writing the Hamiltonian of a quantum system in a way to render it mathematically equivalent to a deterministic system. Such deterministic models are thought to consist of elementary cells - cellular automata - inside which the quantities describing the dynamics oscillate in periodic orbits, extending and replacing the quantum-mechanical classical language based on harmonic oscillators. Here we show that the structure of the cellular automata sets find a clear physical interpretation with the infinite-components equation published by Majorana in 1932, also known as the Majorana Tower: the cellular automata are elementary building blocks generated by the Poincar\'e group of spacetime transformations with positive-defined energy down to the elementary building blocks of the fabric of spacetime. Interestingly, the mathematical approach here considered presents close relationships with those used for the distribution of prime numbers in the P\'olya-Hilbert conjecture for the Riemann Hypothesis.