Quantization due to the time evolution, with applications to Quantum Yang-Mills theory, Quantum Gravity and Classical Statistical Field Theory

Abstract

Quantum Yang-Mills theory, Classical Statistical Field Theory (for Hamiltonians which are non-polynomial in the fields, e.g. General relativistic statistical mechanics) and Quantum Gravity all suffer from severe mathematical inconsistencies and produce unreliable predictions at best. We define with mathematical rigor, a class of statistical field theories in Minkowski space-time where the (classical) canonical coordinates when modified by a non-deterministic time evolution, verify the canonical commutation relations. We then extend these statistical field theories to include non-trivial gauge symmetries and show that these theories have all the features of a Quantum Yang-Mills theory in four-dimensional space-time. We generalize the Gaussian measure to allow for the definition of Hamiltonians which are non-polynomial in the fields, such as in Classical Statistical Field Theory and Quantum Gravity. Finally, we test the consistency of our formalism with the quantization of the free Electromagnetic field.

36 pages, v3: quantum gravity discussed

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