ON CONFORMALLY COMPACTED PHASE SPACE

Abstract

Conformally compactified phase space is conceived as an automorphism space for the global action of the extended conformal group. Space time and momentum space appear then as conformally dual, that is conjugate with respect to conformal reflections. If now the former, as generally agreed, is appropriate for the description of classical mechanics in euclidean geometrical form, then the latter results appropriate for the description of quantum mechanics in spinor geometrical form. In such description, fermion multiplets will naturally appear as consequence of higher symmetries and furthermore, the euclidean geometry, bilinearly resulting from that of spinors, will a priori guarantee the absence of ultraviolet divergences when dealing with quantum field theories. Some further possible consequences of conformal reflections of interest for physics, are briefly outlined.