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Time Quantization and q-deformations Claudio Albanese‡ and Stephan Lawi Department of Mathematics, 100 St. George Street, University of Toronto, M5S 3G3, Toronto, Canada E-mail: albanese@math.toronto.edu, slawi@math.toronto.edu Abstract. We extend to quantum mechanics the technique of stochastic subordination, by means of which one can express any semi-martingale as a time-changed Brownian motion. As examples, we considered two versions of the q-deformed Harmonic oscillator in both ordinary and imaginary time and show how these various cases can be understood as different patterns of time quantization rules. Submitted to: J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 1. Introduction In a search to unravel the fabric of space at short distances, many authors have explored variations on ordinary quantum mechanics based on q-deformations of the canonical commutation relation, q being a parameter in the interval (0, 1) where 1 corresponds to the Bose limit, see for instance [1], [2], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]. Time quantization was considered also, see [3], [13]. On an entirely different line of research, probabilists developed the notion of stochastic time changes (also called stochastic subordination) as a way of understanding jump processes, see [11], [12], [14]. This work gave rise to a representation of Levy processes, a family of translation invariant jump processes, as subordinated Brownian motions whereby the time change is uncorrelated to the underlying process. More generally, Monroe proved that all semi-martingales can be represented as time-changed Brownian motions, as long as one allows for the subordinator to be correlated.