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The quantum pentacle

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  • Papers Presented at the Second New Orleans Conference of Quantum Theory and Gravitation, Loyola University, New Orleans, May, 1983
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Quantum set theory permits the formulation of a quantum simplicial topology suitable for a quantum theory of time space and gravity without prior time space structure. The quantum simplex differs strikingly from the classical: It is isotropic (“points in all directions”) and all quantum simplexes of the same signature are congruent. Quantum simplexes and complexes are described byS numbers, elements of the Clifford algebra of quantum sets. The isotropy groups of noncontiguous simplexes commute, like local invariance groups in a gaugeinvariant theory.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332, Atlanta, Georgia

    David Finkelstein & Ernesto Rodriguez

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Finkelstein, D., Rodriguez, E. The quantum pentacle. Int J Theor Phys 23, 887–894 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02214072

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