Representation of complex probabilities

DOI10.1063/1.531906MaRDI QIDQ4339584zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. L. Salcedo

Publication date 10 February 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9607044

zbMATH Keywords

complex distributionscomplex probabilityrepresentations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of probability theory (60A99) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

Abstract: Let a ``complex probability be a normalizable complex distribution $P(x)$ defined on $R^D$. A real and positive probability distribution $p(z)$, defined on the complex plane $C^D$, is said to be a positive representation of $P(x)$ if $langleQ(x)angl{e}_P=langleQ(z)angl{e}_p$, where $Q(x)$ is any polynomial in $R^D$ and $Q(z)$ its analytical extension on $C^D$. In this paper it is shown that every complex probability admits a real representation and a constructive method is given. Among other results, explicit positive representations, in any number of dimensions, are given for any complex distribution of the form Gaussian times polynomial, for any complex distributions with support at one point and for any periodic Gaussian times polynomial.

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