Self-distributive structures in physics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14458v3
• Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:07:45 GMT
• Title: Self-distributive structures in physics
• Authors: Tobias Fritz,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Lie quandles as the minimal mathematical structure needed to express the idea that observables generate transformations. We argue that Lie quandles can be thought of as nonlinear generalizations of Lie algebras.
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• Abstract: It is an important feature of our existing physical theories that observables generate one-parameter groups of transformations. In classical Hamiltonian mechanics and quantum mechanics, this is due to the fact that the observables form a Lie algebra, and it manifests itself in Noether's theorem. In this paper, we introduce Lie quandles as the minimal mathematical structure needed to express the idea that observables generate transformations. This is based on the notion of a quandle used most famously in knot theory, whose main defining property is the self-distributivity equation $x \triangleright (y \triangleright z) = (x \triangleright y) \triangleright (x \triangleright z)$. We argue that Lie quandles can be thought of as nonlinear generalizations of Lie algebras. We also observe that taking convex combinations of points in vector spaces, which physically corresponds to mixing states, satisfies the same form of self-distributivity.

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