Remark on a group-theoretical formalism for quantum mechanics and the quantum-to-Classical transition (Q2643677): Difference between revisions

Guided by the observation that the statistical description of the classical mechanical systems is given in terms of the probability measures on their phase spaces and that one of their quantum counterparts is encoded into density matrices acting in the Hilbert spaces the authors take the problem how to connect these two formalisms via some explicit quantum-to-classical transition. The claim is that such mechanism is realised by replacing the probability measures and density matrices with their (genereralized) Fourier transforms and characteristic functions. Two examples based on Heisenberg-Weyl group and comments about the the possible extensions to other kinematical groups are given.