Margaret Prugovecki

Stochastic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Spacetime

A Consistent Unification of Relativity and Quantum Theory Based on Stochastic Spaces

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Produktbeschreibung

The principal intent of this monograph is to present in a systematic and self-con­ tained fashion the basic tenets, ideas and results of a framework for the consistent unification of relativity and quantum theory based on a quantum concept of spacetime, and incorporating the basic principles of the theory of stochastic spaces in combination with those of Born's reciprocity theory. In this context, by the physicial consistency of the present framework we mean that the advocated approach to relativistic quantum theory relies on a consistent probabilistic interpretation, which is proven to be a direct extrapolation of the conventional interpretation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. The central issue here is that we can derive conserved and relativistically convariant probability currents, which are shown to merge into their nonrelativistic counterparts in the nonrelativistic limit, and which at the same time explain the physical and mathe­ matical reasons behind the basic fact that no probability currents that consistently describe pointlike particle localizability exist in conventional relativistic quantum mechanics. Thus, it is not that we dispense with the concept oflocality, but rather the advanced central thesis is that the classical concept of locality based on point­ like localizability is inconsistent in the realm of relativistic quantum theory, and should be replaced by a concept of quantum locality based on stochastically formulated systems of covariance and related to the aforementioned currents.

Produktdetails

• Fundamental Theories of Physics 4
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-277-1617-0
• 1984
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 1984
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9789027716170
• ISBN-10: 902771617X
• Artikelnr.: 21327564

Inhaltsangabe

I: Stochastic Quantum Mechanics.- 1 / Nonrelativistic Stochastic Quantum Mechanics.- 2 / Relativistic Stochastic Quantum Mechanics.- 3 / Statistical Mechanics on Stochastic Phase Spaces.- II: Quantum Spacetime.- 4 / Reciprocity Theory and the Geometrization of Stochastic Quantum Mechanics.- 5 / Field Theory on Quantum Spacetime.- Appendix A / Elements of Measure Theory.- Appendix B / Elements of Operator Theory on Hilbert Spaces.- Notes.- References.

Rezensionen

`It is a book which should certainly be included in any library collection on quantum mechanics, and perhaps in the personal libraries of those who are interested in more than standard presentations.' The Australian Physicist (July 1985)

`It is a book which should certainly be included in any library collection on quantum mechanics, and perhaps in the personal libraries of those who are interested in more than standard presentations.' The Australian Physicist (July 1985)