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Quadrangles embedded in metasymplectic spaces
During the final steps in the classification of the Moufang quadrangles by
Jacques Tits and Richard Weiss a new class of Moufang quadrangles unexpectedly
turned up. Subsequently Bernhard Muhlherr and Hendrik Van Maldeghem showed that
this class arises as the fixed points and hyperlines of certain involutions of
a metasymplectic space (or equivalently a building of type F_4). In the same
paper they also showed that other types of Moufang quadrangles can be embedded
in a metasymplectic space as points and hyperlines.
In this paper, we reverse the question: given a (thick) quadrangle embedded
in a metasymplectic space as points and hyperlines, when is such a quadrangle a
Moufang quadrangle
Pilot-wave theory and quantum fields
Pilot-wave theories provide possible solutions to the measurement problem. In
such theories, quantum systems are not only described by the state vector, but
also by some additional variables. These additional variables, also called
beables, can be particle positions, field configurations, strings, etc. In this
paper we focus our attention on pilot-wave theories in which the additional
variables are field configurations. The first such theory was proposed by Bohm
for the free electromagnetic field. Since Bohm, similar pilot-wave theories
have been proposed for other quantum fields. The purpose of this paper is to
present an overview and further development of these proposals. We discuss
various bosonic quantum field theories such as the Schroedinger field, the free
electromagnetic field, scalar quantum electrodynamics and the Abelian Higgs
model. In particular, we compare the pilot-wave theories proposed by Bohm and
by Valentini for the electromagnetic field, finding that they are equivalent.
We further discuss the proposals for fermionic fields by Holland and Valentini.
In the case of Holland's model we indicate that further work is required in
order to show that the model is capable of reproducing the standard quantum
predictions. We also consider a similar model, which does not seem to reproduce
the standard quantum predictions. In the case of Valentini's model we point out
a problem that seems hard to overcome.Comment: 65 pages, no figures, LaTex; v2 minor changes, some extensions; v3
minor improvements; v4 some typos correcte
A new pilot-wave model for quantum field theory
We present a way to construct a pilot-wave model for quantum field theory.
The idea is to introduce beables corresponding only to the bosonic degrees of
freedom and not to the fermionic degrees of freedom of the quantum state. We
illustrate this idea for quantum electrodynamics. The beables will be field
beables corresponding to the electromagnetic field and they will be introduced
in a similar way to that of Bohm's model for the free electromagnetic field.
Our approach is analogous to the situation in non-relativistic quantum theory,
where Bell treated spin not as a beable but only as a property of the
wavefunction.Comment: 21 pages, no figures, LaTex, talk given at the conference "On the
present status of quantum mechanics", 7-9 September, 2005, Mali Losinj,
Croati
On the Uniqueness of Quantum Equilibrium in Bohmian Mechanics
In Bohmian mechanics the distribution is regarded as the
equilibrium distribution. We consider its uniqueness, finding that it is the
unique equivariant distribution that is also a local functional of the wave
function .Comment: 15 pages, no figures, LaTe
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