Entropy (Sep 2022)

How to Secure Valid Quantizations

  • John R. Klauder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101374
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 10
p. 1374

Abstract

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Canonical quantization has created many valid quantizations that require infinite-line coordinate variables. However, the half-harmonic oscillator, which is limited to the positive coordinate half, cannot receive a valid canonical quantization because of the reduced coordinate space. Instead, affine quantization, which is a new quantization procedure, has been deliberately designed to handle the quantization of problems with reduced coordinate spaces. Following examples of what affine quantization is, and what it can offer, a remarkably straightforward quantization of Einstein’s gravity is attained, in which a proper treatment of the positive definite metric field of gravity has been secured.

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