Bohmian trajectories for a time foliation with kinks

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2014.04.005MaRDI QIDQ2451734zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ward Struyve, Roderich Tumulka

Publication date 4 June 2014

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3698

zbMATH Keywords

Bohmian mechanicsfoliationprobability fluxrelativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: This paper concerns the hypersurface Bohm-Dirac model, i.e., the version of Bohmian mechanics in a relativistic space-time proposed by D"urr et al. [1], which assumes a preferred foliation of space-time into spacelike hypersurfaces (called the time foliation) as given. We show that the leaves of the time foliation do not have to be smooth manifolds but can be allowed to have kinks. More precisely, we show that, also for leaves with kinks, the trajectories are still well defined and the appropriate $|psi{|}^2$ distribution is still equivariant, so that the theory is still empirically equivalent to standard quantum mechanics. This result applies to the case where the time foliation is determined by the previously proposed law $dn=0$, since such a foliation generically has kinks.

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