Probabilistic time

DOI10.1007/S10701-012-9675-3MaRDI QIDQ1929884zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christof Wetterich

Publication date 10 January 2013

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2593

zbMATH Keywords

emergence of quantum mechanicslocal-time subsystemprobabilistic description of timetransfer matrix formalism for periodic probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exterior algebra, Grassmann algebras (15A75) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Model quantum field theories (81T10)

Abstract: The concept of time emerges as an ordering structure in a classical statistical ensemble. Probability distributions $p_{a}u(t)$ at a given time $t$ obtain by integrating out the past and future. We discuss all-time probability distributions that realize a unitary time evolution as described by rotations of the real wave function $q_{a}u(t)=pmsqrt{p}_{a}u(t)$. We establish a map to quantum physics and the Schr"odinger equation. Suitable classical observables are mapped to quantum operators. The non-commutativity of the operator product is traced back to the incomplete statistics of the local-time subsystem. Our investigation of classical statistics is based on two-level observables that take the values one or zero. Then the wave functions can be mapped to elements of a Grassmann algebra. Quantum field theories for fermions arise naturally from our formulation of probabilistic time.

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