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This paper advances theoretical quantum mechanics by utilizing K-theoretic gap labels and functorial methods to distinguish noncommutative sectors that standard Bopp shifts fail to separate. The research provides rigorous mathematical criteria for identifying inequivalent representations in two-dimensional systems, offering new tools for analyzing the structural differences between ordinary and noncommutative quantum frameworks.
From Bopp Shifts to Toroidal Shadows: K-Theoretic Gap Labels in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics
arXiv:2603.00524v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study Bopp shifts in two-dimensional noncommutative quantum mechanics (NCQM) through a functorial lens. A nondegenerate NCQM sector with central character $(\hbar,\vartheta,B_{\rm in})$ determines a self-adjoint infinitesimal representation of the NCQM Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}_{\rm NC}$. A Darboux normalization of its represented phase-space operators produces a self-adjoint infinitesimal representation of the Weyl-Heisenberg Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}_{\rm WH}$ with central parameter $\hbar$, and hence defines a Bopp-shift functor collapsing $(\hbar,\vartheta,B_{\rm in}) \mapsto \hbar$. In particular, a generic NCQM sector is not equivalent, as a $\mathfrak{g}_{\rm NC}$-sector, to the ordinary QM sector $(\hbar,0,0)$, even though their Bopp-shift images have the same Weyl-Heisenberg parameter. To measure what this collapse forgets, we construct a toroidal shadow functor assigning to each periodic datum $L=(a_x,a_y)$ and each NCQM sector $\chi$ a phase-space noncommutative four-torus $A^4_{\Theta_{\chi,L}}$. Its $K_0$-trace pairing yields sector-sensitive gap labels whose top-degree coefficient is $(\vartheta B_{\rm in}-\hbar)/((2\pi)^2\hbar)$. This coefficient is independent of the spatial cell area $a_xa_y$ and equals the Pfaffian ${\rm Pf}(\Theta_{\chi,L})$, the top-degree generator of the $K_0$-trace range. Since strong Morita equivalence preserves this trace range up to positive scaling, non-proportionality of the trace ranges obstructs Morita equivalence of the shadows, separating equal-$\hbar$ sectors that the Bopp-shift functor identifies. In the arithmetic subfamily where $\vartheta/A$ and $B_{\rm in}A/\hbar$ are algebraic, the trace-range scale is forced to be trivial and $|{\rm Pf}|$ becomes a computable separation criterion: $|\vartheta B_{\rm in}-\hbar| \neq |\vartheta' B'_{\rm in}-\hbar|$ already implies inequivalence.
Abstract:We study Bopp shifts in two-dimensional noncommutative quantum mechanics (NCQM) through a functorial lens. A nondegenerate NCQM sector with central character $(\hbar,\vartheta,B_{\rm in})$ determines a self-adjoint infinitesimal representation of the NCQM Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}_{\rm NC}$. A Darboux normalization of its represented phase-space operators produces a self-adjoint infinitesimal representation of the Weyl-Heisenberg Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}_{\rm WH}$ with central parameter $\hbar$, and hence defines a Bopp-shift functor collapsing $(\hbar,\vartheta,B_{\rm in}) \mapsto \hbar$. In particular, a generic NCQM sector is not equivalent, as a $\mathfrak{g}_{\rm NC}$-sector, to the ordinary QM sector $(\hbar,0,0)$, even though their Bopp-shift images have the same Weyl-Heisenberg parameter. To measure what this collapse forgets, we construct a toroidal shadow functor assigning to each periodic datum $L=(a_x,a_y)$ and each NCQM sector $\chi$ a phase-space noncommutative four-torus $A^4_{\Theta_{\chi,L}}$. Its $K_0$-trace pairing yields sector-sensitive gap labels whose top-degree coefficient is $(\vartheta B_{\rm in}-\hbar)/((2\pi)^2\hbar)$. This coefficient is independent of the spatial cell area $a_xa_y$ and equals the Pfaffian ${\rm Pf}(\Theta_{\chi,L})$, the top-degree generator of the $K_0$-trace range. Since strong Morita equivalence preserves this trace range up to positive scaling, non-proportionality of the trace ranges obstructs Morita equivalence of the shadows, separating equal-$\hbar$ sectors that the Bopp-shift functor identifies. In the arithmetic subfamily where $\vartheta/A$ and $B_{\rm in}A/\hbar$ are algebraic, the trace-range scale is forced to be trivial and $|{\rm Pf}|$ becomes a computable separation criterion: $|\vartheta B_{\rm in}-\hbar| \neq |\vartheta' B'_{\rm in}-\hbar|$ already implies inequivalence.
arXiv:2603.00524 [math-ph]
(or arXiv:2603.00524v4 [math-ph] for this version)
J. Geom. Phys. 229 (2026) 105942
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2026.105942 DOI(s) linking to related resources
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