1999/06/23 by Piret Kuusk
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
published as Webs & Quasigroups 1998-1999, ed. A. Shelekhov, Tver, 1999, pp. 127-136 · 10 pages, LaTex, submitted to "Webs and Quasigroups 1998-1999" (Tver State University, Tver)
arxiv created 1999/06/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We consider a quantum test particle in the background of a Newtonian gravitational field in the framework of Cartan's formulation of nonrelativistic spacetimes. We have proposed a novel quantization of a point particle which amounts to introducing its position operators as multiplication with the corresponding Riemann normal coordinates and momentum operators as infinitesimal right translation operators determined by geodesic multiplication of points of the spacetime. We present detailed calculations for the simplest model of a two-dimensional Newtonian spacetime.