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View SchemaStochastic mechanics, trace dynamics, and differential space - a synthesis
| Authors | Mark Davidson |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0602211 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602211 |
Abstract
It is shown how Adler's trace dynamics can be applied to stochastic mechanics and other complex classical dynamical systems. Emergent non-commutivity due to the fractal nature of sample trajectories is closely related to the fact that the forward and backward time derivatives are different for these diffusions. A new variational approach to stochastic mechanics based on trace dynamics is introduced. It is shown that Yasue's method and Guerra and Morato's method can both be generalized to allow for any diffusion constant in a stochastic model of Schrodinger's equation, and that they can all also describe dissipative diffusion. Then it is shown that the trace dynamical theory seems to only describe dissipative diffusion unless an extra quantum mechanical potential term is added to the Hamiltonian. The differential space theory of Wiener and Siegel is reconsidered as a useful tool in this framework, and is generalized to stochastic processes instead of deterministic ones for the hidden trajectories of observables. It is proposed that the natural measure space for Wiener-Siegel theory is Haar measure for random unitary matrices. A new interpretation of the polychotomic algorithm is given.
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"title": "Stochastic mechanics, trace dynamics, and differential space - a synthesis",
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