Symmetries of decoherence functionals

DOI10.1063/1.531889MaRDI QIDQ4338346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephan Schreckenberg

Publication date 1 March 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9607050

zbMATH Keywords

complete orthomodular latticeconsistent historiesdecoherence functionalsGleason's Theoremhistory propositionsquantum theoryunitary or antiunitary operatorvon Neumann algebra of linear operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: The basic ingredients of the `consistent histories' approach to quantum theory are a space $UP$ of `history propositions' and a space $D$ of `decoherence functionals'. In this article we consider such history quantum theories in the case where $UP$ is given by the set of projectors $P(V)$ on some Hilbert space $V$. Using an analogue of Wigner's Theorem in the context of history quantum theories proven earlier, we develop the notion of a `symmetry of a decoherence functional' and prove that all such symmetries form a group which we call `the symmetry group of a decoherence functional'. We calculate---for the case of history quantum mechanics---some of these symmetries explicitly and relate them to some discussions that have appeared previously.

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• Symmetry requirement for a deformation operator related to density functional theory
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• Decoherence in pre-symmetric spaces

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