On the geometry of the energy operator in quantum mechanics
arXiv:1408.6150 · doi:10.1142/S0219887814600275
Abstract
We analyze the different ways to define the energy operator in geometric theories of quantum mechanics. In some formulations the operator contains the scalar curvature as a multiplicative term. We show that such term can be canceled or added with an arbitrary constant factor, both in the mainstream Geometric Quantization and in the Covariant Quantum Mechanics, developed by Jadczyk and Modugno with several contributions from many authors.
18 pages; paper in honour of the 70th birthday of Luigi Mangiarotti and Marco Modugno