and quantum mechanics embedded in symplectic quantum mechanics
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Abstract
A real-valued symplectic group underlies the dynamics of quantum-mechanical systems. Exploring the embedding of unitary groups clarifies the relation of non-Hermitian - and -symmetric quantum theories of recent interest. Symmetries of the full dynamical framework are quite rich and reveal new viewpoints on many topics in quantum theory. Transformations mixing ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ components of certain symplectic multiplets are indistinguishable from coupling antimatter degrees of freedom. Quantities long identified with physical observables are valid canonical coordinates of the theory, without needing support from measurement doctrine. Dirac's canonical quantization is derived from consistency, and would be redundant as a new postulate. A second-order dynamical framework exists in which observables are just the same as the underlying degrees of freedom.