FRACTALS AND CHAOS RELATED TO ISING–ONSAGER–ZHANG LATTICES VERSUS THE JORDAN–VON NEUMANN–WIGNER PROCEDURES: QUATERNARY APPROACH

Abstract

The paper is inspired by a spectral decomposition and fractal eigenvectors for a class of piecewise linear maps due to Tasaki et al. [1994] and by an ad hoc explicit derivation of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation based on a Peano–Hilbert planar curve, due to El Nashie [1994]. It is also inspired by an elegant generalization by Zhang [2008] of the exact solution by Onsager [1944] to the problem of description of the Ising lattices [Ising, 1925]. This generalization involves, in particular, opening the knots by a rotation in a higher dimensional space and studying important commutators in the corresponding algebra. The investigations of Onsager and Zhang, involving quaternion matrices of order being a power of two, can be reformulated with the use of the "quaternionic" sequence of Jordan algebras implied by the fundamental paper of Jordan et al. [1934]. It is closely related to Heisenberg's approach to quantum theories, as summarized by him in his essay dedicated to Bohr on the occasion of Bohr's seventieth birthday (1955). We show that the Jordan structures are closely related to some types of fractals, in particular, fractals of the algebraic structure. Our study includes fractal renormalization and the renormalized Dirac operator, meromorphic Schauder basis and hyperfunctions on fractal boundaries, and a final discussion.