Algebraic Quantization of Integrable Models in Discrete Space-time

Abstract

Just like decent classical difference-difference systems define symplectic maps on suitable phase spaces, their counterparts with properly ordered noncommutative entries come as Heisenberg equations of motion for corresponding quantum discrete-discrete models. We observe how this idea applies to a difference-difference counterpart of the Liouville equation. We produce explicit forms of of its evolution operator for the two natural space-time coordinate systems. We discover that discrete-discrete models inherit crucial features of their continuous-time parents like locality and integrability while the new-found algebraic transparency promises a useful progress in some branches of Quantum Inverse Scattering Method.