On Quantization of Field Theories in Polymomentum Variables

Abstract

Polymomentum canonical theories, which are manifestly covariant multi-parameter generalizations of the Hamiltonian formalism to field theory, are considered as a possible basis of quantization. We arrive at a multi-parameter hypercomplex generalization of quantum mechanics to field theory in which the algebra of complex numbers and a time parameter are replaced by the space-time Clifford algebra and space-time variables treated in a manifestly covariant fashion. The corresponding covariant generalization of the Schroedinger equation is shown to be consistent with several aspects of the correspondence principle such as a relation to the De Donder-Weyl Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the classical limit and the Ehrenfest theorem. A relation of the corresponding wave function (over a finite dimensional configuration space of field and space-time variables) to the Schroedinger wave functional in quantum field theory is examined in the ultra-local approximation.

arXiv comment13 pages, uses aipproc.sty and aipproc.cls. To appear in "Particles, Fields and Gravitation", Proc. Int. Conf. Lodz 1998 (AIP Proceedings, 1998)

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