The novelty of the Jean Pierre Badiali last scientific works stems to a quantum approach based on both (i) a return to the notion of trajectories (Feynman paths) and (ii) an irreversibility of the quantum transitions. These iconoclastic choices find again the Hilbertian and the von Neumann algebraic point of view by dealing statistics over loops. This approach confers an external thermodynamic origin to the notion of a quantum unit of time (Rovelli Connes' thermal time). This notion, basis for quantization, appears herein as a mere criterion of parting between the quantum regime and the thermodynamic regime. The purpose of this note is to unfold the content of the last five years of scientific exchanges aiming to link in a coherent scheme the Jean Pierre's choices and works, and the works of the authors of this note based on hyperbolic geodesics and the associated role of Riemann zeta functions. While these options do not unveil any contradictions, nevertheless they give birth to an intrinsic arrow of time different from the thermal time. The question of the physical meaning of Riemann hypothesis as the basis of quantum mechanics, which was at the heart of our last exchanges, is the backbone of this note.
From algebraic analysis of quantum mechanics to "irreversible" Feynman paths integralDespite the unstoppable success of the technosciences based on both quantum mechanics, standard particle model and cosmological model, at least two questions must be investigated among many issues that the theories leave open [1, 2]: (i) the question of the ontological status of the time and (ii) the obsessive interrogation concerning the existence or the absence of an intrinsic "arrow of time". The origin of these questions comes from the equivocal equivalence of the status of time in any types of mechanical formalisms. For example, within Newtonian vision, the observable f can be analysed algebraically using action-integral through the Lagrangian L while Poisson brackets gives time differential representations d f /dt = {H, f }. According to Noether theorem, the energy, referred to the Hamiltonian H, is no other than the tag of a time-shift independence of physical laws, namely a compact commutativity. The statistical knowledge of the high dimensions system requires (i) the definition of a Liouville measure µ L based on the symplectic structure of the phase space and (ii) the value of the configuration distribution Z C , therefore dµ ∼ (1/Z C ) e −βH , with β = 1/k B T related to the inverse of the temperature. This point of view is discretized in quantum mechanics (QM).