Precisely Predictable Dirac Observables

2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5168-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 154, 269 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Fundamental Theories of Physics

In this book we are attempting to o?er a modi?cation of Dirac’s theory of the electron we believe to be free of the usual paradoxa, so as perhaps to be acceptable as a clean quantum-mechanical treatment. While it seems to be a fact that the classical mechanics, from Newton to E- stein’s theory of gravitation, o?ers a very rigorous concept, free of contradictions and able to accurately predict motion of a mass point, quantum mechanics, even in its simplest cases, does not seem to have this kind of clarity. Almost it seems that everyone of its fathers had his own wave equation. For the quantum mechanical 1-body problem (with vanishing potentials) let 1 us focus on 3 di?erent wave equations: (I) The Klein-Gordon equation 3 2 2 2 2 (1) ? ?/?t +(1??)? =0, ? = Laplacian = ? /?x. j 1 This equation may be written as ? ? (2) (?/?t?i 1??)(?/?t +i 1??)? =0. Hereitmaybenotedthattheoperator1??hasawellde?nedpositive square root as unbounded self-adjoint positive operator of the Hilbert 2 3 spaceH = L (R ).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cordes, Heinz Otto

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Vektoranalysis, Physikalische Felder
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Differentialrechnungen und -gleichungen
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Moderne Anwendungen der Analysis
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dirac Observables and ?do-s.- Why Should Observables be Pseudodifferential?.- Decoupling with ?do-s.- Smooth Pseudodifferential Heisenberg Representation.- The Algebra of Precisely Predictable Observables.- Lorentz Covariance of Precise Predictability.- Spectral Theory of Precisely Predictable Approximations.- Dirac and Schrödinger Equations; a Comparison.