Strings, world-sheet covariant quantization and Bohmian mechanics
Abstract
The covariant canonical method of quantization based on the De Donder Weyl covariant canonical formalism is used to formulate a world-sheet covariant quantization of bosonic strings. To provide the consistency with the standard non-covariant canonical quantization, it is necessary to adopt a Bohmian deterministic hidden-variable equation of motion. In this way, string theory suggests a solution to the problem of measurement in quantum mechanics.
- Publication:
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European Physical Journal C
- Pub Date:
- August 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1140/epjc/s2006-02580-0
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0512186
- Bibcode:
- 2006EPJC...47..525N
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, version to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C