Configuration space vs physical space

Thread starter Demystifier
Start date Jan 15, 2009
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In summary: So if you have n elementary systems in configurationspace, you get n positions in the underlying Lie algebra. Now, if youapply the commutator (of the Lie algebra's Lie bracket), you get a new Lie bracket that isassociated with the product of the original Lie bracket and the position of theelement corresponding to the elementary system in configuration space. Now, theposition of this product is a position in the underlying Lie algebra. Thisoperation is associative, so it can be undone (and so on)... So you can goback and forth between configuration space and the underlying Lie algebra"at will." This is just an abstract way of saying that the configurationspace corresponds to a "view" of

Apr 20, 2012

debra

Wouldn't a configuration space offer a better alternative to renormalisation?
Then below a specified minimum coordinate range space is 'undefined' - that would help us with some of our cowboy infinities I believe...