On the precanonical structure of the Schr\"odinger wave functional

Abstract

We show that the Schr\"odinger wave functional may be obtained as the product integral of precanonical wave functions on the space of field and space-time variables. The functional derivative Schr\"odinger equation underlying the canonical field quantization is derived from the partial derivative covariant analogue of the Schr\"odinger equation, which appears in the precanonical field quantization based on the De Donder-Weyl generalization of the Hamiltonian formalism for field theory. The representations of precanonical quantum operators typically contain an ultraviolet parameter $\varkappa$ of the dimension of the inverse spatial volume. The transition from the precanonical description of quantum fields in terms of Clifford-valued wave functions and partial derivative operators to the standard functional Schr\"odinger representation obtained from canonical quantization is accomplished if $\frac{1}{\varkappa}\rightarrow 0$ and $\frac{1}{\varkappa}\gamma_0$ is mapped to the infinitesimal spatial volume element $\mathrm{d}\mathbf{x}$. Thus the standard QFT obtained via canonical quantization corresponds to the quantum theory of fields derived via precanonical quantization in the limiting case of an infinitesimal value of the parameter $\frac{1}{\varkappa}$.