The action operator for continuous-time histories

DOI10.1063/1.533050zbMATH Open0968.81001arXivgr-qc/9811078OpenAlexW2038525461MaRDI QIDQ4498463FDOQ4498463

Authors: Konstantina Savvidou 

Publication date: 16 August 2000

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define the action operator in the consistent histories formalism, as the quantum analogue of the classical action functional, for the simple harmonic oscillator case. The action operator is shown to be the generator of time transformations, and to be associated with the two types of time-evolution of the standard quantum theory: the wave-packet reduction and the unitary time-evolution. We construct the corresponding classical histories and demonstrate the relevance with the quantum histories. Finally, we show the relation of the action operator to the decoherence functional.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811078

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic oscillatordecoherence functionalwave-packet reductionaction operatorgenerator of time transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30)

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