Symmetry (Jul 2024)

Geometric Interpretation of a Non-Linear Extension of Quantum Mechanics

  • Alan Chodos,
  • Fred Cooper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16070887
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 7
p. 887

Abstract

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We recently introduced a particular non-linear generalization of quantum mechanics that has the property that it is exactly solvable in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian of the usual linear quantum mechanics problem. In this paper, we suggest that the two components of the wave function represent the system described by the Hamiltonian H in two different asymptotic regions of spacetime and we show that the non-linear terms can be viewed as giving rise to gravitational effects.

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