A Noether theorem for Markov processes

DOI10.1063/1.4773921MaRDI QIDQ5396263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John Baez, Brendan Fong

Publication date 5 February 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2035

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov semigroups and applications to diffusion processes (47D07) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20)

Abstract: Noether's theorem links the symmetries of a quantum system with its conserved quantities, and is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. Here we prove a version of Noether's theorem for Markov processes. In quantum mechanics, an observable commutes with the Hamiltonian if and only if its expected value remains constant in time for every state. For Markov processes that no longer holds, but an observable commutes with the Hamiltonian if and only if both its expected value and standard deviation are constant in time for every state.

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