Matter as Spectrum of Spacetime Representations

TL;DR

This paper explores a novel framework where quantum states are represented as spacetime representations using residual functions, linking invariants to gauge couplings and particle masses within a nonlinear spacetime model.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach to embedding quantum states into spacetime representations via residual functions, connecting invariants to physical constants and particle properties.

Findings

Representation invariants relate to gauge coupling constants.

Invariants of product representations define particle masses.

Spacetime modeled as a nonlinear space with specific symmetry properties.

Abstract

Bound and scattering state Schr\"odinger functions of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics as representation matrix elements of space and time are embedded into residual representations of spacetime as generalizations of Feynman propagators. The representation invariants arise as singularities of rational representation functions in the complex energy and complex momentum plane. The homogeneous space $GL(2,C)/U(2)$ with rank 2, the orientation manifold of the unitary hypercharge-isospin group, is taken as model of nonlinear spacetime. Its representations are characterized by two continuous invariants whose ratio will be related to gauge field coupling constants as residues of the related representation functions. Invariants of product representations define unitary Poincar\'e group representations with masses for free particles in tangent Minkowski spacetime.