Analytic Continuation of Stochastic Mechanics

DOI10.1063/5.0073096MaRDI QIDQ6378279arXivFDO

Authors Folkert Kuipers

Publication date 22 September 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0073096

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Stochastic quantization (81S20)

arXiv classification

cond-mat.stat-mechhep-thmath-phmath.MPquant-ph

Abstract: We study a (relativistic) Wiener process on a complexified (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold. Using Nelson's stochastic quantization procedure, we derive three equivalent descriptions for this problem. If the process has a purely real quadratic variation, we obtain the one-sided Wiener process that is encountered in the theory of Brownian motion. In this case, the result coincides with the Feyman-Kac formula. On the other hand, for a purely imaginary quadratic variation, we obtain the two-sided Wiener process that is encountered in stochastic mechanics, which provides a stochastic description of a quantum particle on a curved spacetime.

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