In TGD, geometric and number theoretic visions of physics are complementary. This complementarity is analogous to momentum position duality of quantum theory and implied by the replacement of a point-like particle with 3-surface, whose Bohr orbit defines space-time surface.
At a very abstract level this view is analogous to Langlands correspondence. The recent view of TGD involving an exact algebraic solution of field equations based on holography= holomorphy vision allows to formulate the analog Langlands correspondence in 4-D context rather precisely. This requires a generalization of the notion of Galois group from 2-D situation to 4-D situation: there are 2 generalizations and both are required.
- The first generalization realizes Galois group elements, not as automorphisms of a number field, but as analytic flows in H=M4× CP2 permuting different regions of the space-time surface identified as roots for a pair f=(f1,f2) of pairs f=(f1,f2): H→ C2, i=1,2. The functions fi are analytic functions of one hypercomplex and 3 complex coordinates of H.
- Second realization is for the spectrum generating algebra defined by the functional compositions gº f, where g: C2→ C2 is analytic function of 2 complex variables. The interpretation is as a cognitive hierarchy of function of functions of .... and the pairs (f1,f2) which do not allow a composition of form f=gº h correspond to elementary function and to the lowest levels of this hierarchy, kind of elementary particles of cognition. Also the pairs g can be expressed as composites of elementary functions.
If g1 and g2 are polynomials with coefficients in field E identified as an extension of rationals, one can assign to g º f root a set of pairs (r1,r2) as roots f1,f2)= (r1,r2) and ri are algebraic numbers defining disjoint space-time surfaces. One can assign to the set of root pairs the analog of the Galois group as automorphisms of the algebraic extension of the field E appearing as the coefficient field of (f1,f2) and (g1,g2). This hierarchy leads to the idea that physics could be seen as an analog of a formal system appearing in Gödel's theorems and that the hierarchy of functional composites could correspond to a hierarchy of meta levels in mathematical cognition.
- The quantum generalization of integers, rationals and algebraic numbers to their functional counterparts is possible for maps g: C2→ C2. The counterpart of the ordinary product is functional composition º for maps g. Degree is multiplicative in º. In sum, call it +e, the degree should be additive, which leads to the identification of the sum +e as an element-wise product. The neutral element 1º of º is 1º=Id and the neutral element 0e of +e is the ordinary unit 0e=1.
The inverse corresponds to g-1 for º, which in general is a many-valued algebraic function and to 1/g for times. The maps g, which do not allow decomposition g= hº i, can be identified as functional primes and have prime degree. f:H→ C2 is prime if it does not allow composition f= gº h. Functional integers are products of functional primes gp.
The non-commutativity of º could be seen as a problem. The fact that the maps g act like operators suggest that the functional primes gp in the product commute. Functional integers/rationals can be mapped to ordinary by a morphism mapping their degree to integer/rational.
- One can define functional polynomials P(X), quantum polynomials, using these operations. In P(X), the terms pnº Xºn, pn and X should commute. The sum ∑e pnXn corresponds to +e. The zeros of functional polynomials satisfy the condition P(X)=0e=1 and give as solutions roots Xk as functional algebraic numbers. The fundamental theorem of algebra generalizes at least formally if Xk and X commute. The roots have representation as a space-time surface. One can also define functional discriminant D as the º product of root differences Xk-e Xl, with -e identified as element-wise division and the functional primes dividing it have space-time surface as a representation.
What about functional p-adics?
- The functional powers gpº k of primes gp define analogs of powers of p-adic primes and one can define a functional generalization of p-adic numbers as quantum p-adics. The coefficients Xk Xkºgpk are polynomials with degree smaller than p. The sum +e so that the roots are disjoint unions of the roots of Xkºgpºk.
- Large powers of prime appearing in p-adic numbers must approach 0e with respect to the p-adic norm so that gPºn must effectively approach Id with respect toº. Intuitively, a large n in gPºn corresponds to a long p-adic length scale. For large n, gPºn cannot be realized as a space-time surface in a fixed CD. This would prevent their representation and they would correspond to 0e and Id. During the sequence of SSFRs the size of CD increases and for some critical SSFRs a new power can emerge to the quantum p-adic.
- Universal Witt polynomials Wn define an alternative representation of p-adic numbers reducing the multiplication of p-adic numbers to elementwise product for the coefficients of the Witt polynomial. The roots for the coefficients of Wn define space-time surfaces: they should be the same as those defined by the coefficients of functional p-adics.
There are many open questions.
- The question whether the hierarchy of infinite primes has relevance to TGD has remained open. It turns out that the 4 lowest levels of the hierarchy can be assigned to the rational functions fi: H→ C2, i=1,2 and the generalization of the hierarchy can be assigned to the composition hierarchy of prime maps gp.
- >Could the transitions f→ gº f correspond to the classical non-determinism in which one root of g is selected? If so, the p-adic non-determinism would correspond to classical non-determinism. Quantum superposition of the roots would make it possible to realize the quantum notion of concept.
- What is the interpretation of the maps g-1 which in general are many-valued algebraic functions if g is rational function? g increases the complexity but g-1 preserves or even reduces it so that its action is entropic. Could selection between g and g-1 relate to a conscious choice between good and evil?
- Could one understand the p-adic length scale hypothesis in terms of functional primes. The counter for functional Mersenne prime would be g2ºn/g1, where division is with respect to elementwise product defining +e? For g2 and g3 and also their iterates the roots allow analytic expression. Could primes near powers of g2 and g3 be cognitively very special?
See the chapter A more detailed view about the TGD counterpart of Langlands correspondence or the article with the same title.
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