A Stepwise Planned Approach to the Solution of Hilbert's Sixth Problem. I : Noncommutative Symplectic Geometry and Hamiltonian Mechanics

Tulsi Dass

Published 2009-09-25, updated 2010-12-10Version 6

This series of papers is devoted to an open-ended project aimed at the solution of Hilbert's sixth problem (concerning joint axiomatization of physics and probability theory) proposed to be constructed in the framework of an all-embracing mechanics. In this first paper, the bare skeleton of such a mechanics is constructed in the form of noncommutative Hamiltonian mechanics (NHM) which combines elements of noncommutative symplectic geometry and noncommutative probability in the framework of topological superalgebras; it includes, besides NHM basics, a treatment of Lie group actions in NHM and noncommutative analogues of the momentum map, Poincar$\acute{e}$-Cartan form and the symplectic version of Noether's theorem. Canonically induced symplectic structure on the (skew) tensor product of two symplectic superalgebras (needed in the description of interaction between systems) is shown to exist if and only if either both system superalgebras are supercommutative or both non-supercommutative with a `quantum symplectic structure' characterized by a \emph{universal} Planck type constant; the presence of such a universal constant is, therefore, \emph{dictated} by the formalism. This provides proper foundation for an autonomous development of quantum mechanics as a universal mechanics.