The action operator for continuous-time histories

DOI10.1063/1.533050MaRDI QIDQ4498463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Konstantina Savvidou

Publication date 16 August 2000

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

action operatordecoherence functionalgenerator of time transformationsharmonic oscillatorwave-packet reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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