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April 14, 20260 citationsOpen Access

UCM 47: Canonical Commutation Relations from the Substrate Path Integral

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NPNorbert Prebeck

Key Points

  • The aim is to show how canonical commutation relations emerge from properties of the U-Cell Model substrate in quantum mechanics.
  • Analyzed the structural properties of the U-Cell Model substrate.
  • Decomposed the substrate into Fourier normal modes.
  • Applied the Stone-von Neumann theorem to derive commutation relations.
  • Cited the emergence of unique commutation relations with no free parameters.
  • Confirmed that anharmonic gravity-matter coupling does not alter the symplectic structure.
  • Reiterated that the substrate's fluctuation is an irreducible postulate.

Abstract

We show that the canonical commutation relations of quantum mechanics follow from a structural property of the U-Cell Model substrate: the free action is exactly quadratic, making the substrate a system of coupled harmonic oscillators. Fourier decomposition into normal modes, followed by the Stone-von Neumann theorem, yields unique commutation relations with no free parameters. The anharmonic gravity-matter coupling does not modify the result, because the symplectic structure depends only on the kinetic term. One irreducible postulate remains: that the substrate fluctuates. Given this empirical fact, the structure, scale, and uniqueness of quantum mechanics follow from the substrate without further input. This closes Open Problem 2 of the UCM Mathematical Companion (Part Q).

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Norbert Prebeck (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ddd99ae195c95cdefd6e0fhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19531781
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