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Super Hilbert Space and the Quantum-Mechanical Time Operators

David M. Rosenbaum

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The basic idea of super Hilbert space is to represent physical states by continuous linear functionals on a space of good functions, rather than by functions in a Hilbert space. Since L2 is in one-to-one correspondence with a subset of super Hilbert space, everything that can be done in L2 can be done in super Hilbert space. In addition, however, it is possible to have a time operator and thus to base relativistic quantum mechanics on covariant four-dimensional commutation relations.

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The basic idea of super Hilbert space is to represent physical states by continuous linear functionals on a space of good functions, rather than by functions in a Hilbert space. Since L2 is in one-to-one correspondence with a subset of super Hilbert space, everything that can be done in L2 can be done in super Hilbert space. In addition, however, it is possible to have a time operator and thus to base relativistic quantum mechanics on covariant four-dimensional commutation relations.

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The basic idea of super Hilbert space is to represent physical states by continuous linear functionals on a space of good functions, rather than by functions in a Hilbert space. Since L2 is in one-to-one correspondence with a subset of super Hilbert space, everything that can be done in L2 can be done in super Hilbert space. In addition, however, it is possible to have a time operator and thus to base relativistic quantum mechanics on covariant four-dimensional commutation relations.

Key concepts: Rigged Hilbert space, Hilbert space, POVM, SIC-POVM, Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, Projective Hilbert space, Mathematics, Covariant transformation

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