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Geometry of the complex extension of Wigner's theorem
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Geometry of the complex extension of Wigner's theorem

Dorje C Brody
Journal of physics. A, Mathematical and theoretical, Vol.46(39), pp.395301-11
04/10/2013

Abstract

holomorphically projective transformation Kähler-Einstein manifold non-Hermitian Hamiltonian
Wigner's theorem asserts that an isometric (probability conserving) transformation on a quantum state space must be generated by a Hamiltonian that is Hermitian. It is shown that when the hermiticity condition on the Hamiltonian is relaxed, we obtain the following complex generalization of Wigner's theorem: a holomorphically projective (complex geodesic curves preserving) transformation on a quantum state space must be generated by a Hamiltonian that is not necessarily Hermitian.

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