Background-Quantum Split Symmetry and Phase-Space Path-Integrals

TL;DR

This paper explores phase-space path-integrals to illustrate a novel interpretation of quantum mechanics as a gauge theory involving metaplectic spinor fields, offering new insights into quantum foundations.

Contribution

It introduces a gauge-theoretic interpretation of quantum mechanics using phase-space path-integrals and metaplectic spinor fields, expanding the conceptual framework of quantum theory.

Findings

Demonstrates the use of phase-space path-integrals in quantum gauge theories

Provides a new perspective on quantum mechanics as a gauge theory of spinor fields

Highlights the role of background-quantum split symmetry in this interpretation

Abstract

Phase-space path-integrals are used in order to illustrate various aspects of a recently proposed interpretation of quantum mechanics as a gauge theory of metaplectic spinor fields.